Literary notes about Surging (AI summary)
The term "surging" in literature powerfully conveys both literal and metaphorical motion. It is often used to animate natural phenomena such as roaring seas, billowing waves, and rushing rivers, evoking images of relentless water force [1, 2, 3]. At the same time, authors employ it to express overwhelming emotional currents—a torrent of passions, thoughts, and societal movements—that sweep over characters or crowds with an almost tangible intensity [4, 5, 6, 7]. Whether illustrating the pulsating energy of a stormy ocean or the inner tumult of a mind filled with burning desire, "surging" serves as a dynamic bridge between the external world and the internal landscape, reinforcing the vivid, unstoppable momentum that defines both nature and human experience [8, 9, 10, 11].
- By the winds 'twas gently cradled, Gently nursed by winds and waters, By the waves was driven shoreward, Landed by the surging billows.
— from Kalevala : the Epic Poem of Finland — Complete - High o'er the surging tide, by leaps and bounds, He wades, and mounts; the parted wave resounds.
— from The Iliad by Homer - A raft was formed to cross the surging sea; Herself supplied the stores and rich array, And gave the gales to waft me on my way,
— from The Odyssey by Homer - They but dimly represent the great surging feelings and desires which lie behind.
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser - A blind panic drove these men in a surging swaying mob to and fro along the shore like a herd of cattle afraid of the water.
— from Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad - I could almost hear the beating of my own heart; and the blood surging through my temples sounded like blows from a hammer.
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker - I must speak at last, give utterance to what is surging in my heart!"
— from White Nights and Other Stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky - The men bending and surging in their haste and rage were in every impossible attitude.
— from The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War by Stephen Crane - But night fell and wrapped the surging ocean in its shadows.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne - It was perhaps just because ideas I did not understand were surging up in me, that I used to drink and fight and rage.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Through me the afflatus surging and surging, through me the current and index.
— from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
