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Literary notes about Spring (AI summary)

The word "spring" in literature wears many hats—a marker of seasonal rebirth, a source of life-giving water, and even a metaphor for sudden action or renewal. In some passages it signifies nature’s awakening, evoking images of budding flora and the melting of winter’s grip that invite hope and transformation [1, 2, 3]. In other contexts, it serves as a vivid symbol of energy, whether through a literal fountain believed to bestow divinity and prophecy [4, 5, 6] or as a sudden, dynamic force ready to pounce upon its target [7]. This diverse use enriches narratives, layering the familiar rhythms of nature with metaphorical echoes of emotional and physical rejuvenation.
  1. The weather here is very unsettled; still I think the spring has come at length; already the ice has almost gone.
    — from Napoleon's Letters to Josephine, 1796-1812 by Emperor of the French Napoleon I
  2. The sun just touched the morning; The morning, happy thing, Supposed that he had come to dwell, And life would be all spring.
    — from Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete by Emily Dickinson
  3. Then, in the spring, she returned north.
    — from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant
  4. 2152 The famed Castalian spring is now called the Fountain of St. John, from the chapel of that saint which stands close to its source.
    — from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny
  5. Such a spring is said to have gushed from the foot of the great oak at Dodona, and from its murmurous flow the priestess drew oracles.
    — from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer
  6. The princess looked into the spring after her ball, but it was very deep, so deep that she could not see the bottom of it.
    — from Grimms' Fairy Tales by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm
  7. But she could feel the class watching her, ready to spring on her.
    — from The Rainbow by D. H. Lawrence

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