Literary notes about Vision (AI summary)
In literature, the term vision oscillates between the literal and the metaphorical, serving as a bridge between physical perception and deeper, often spiritual, insight. It is invoked not only to describe the act of seeing—as when nature becomes an almost impenetrable curtain before one's eyes [1] or when a fleeting image is caught in a mirror [2]—but also to embody transformative ideals and divine revelations. In some texts, vision carries the weight of prophetic insight and destiny, guiding characters and narrators alike in their quests [3], [4], [5]. Meanwhile, vision also acts as a metaphor for internal clarity or recollection, with authors using it to reveal how memory or inner purpose can recreate the past or define the future [6], [7]. Thus, across various genres and epochs, the notion of vision enriches the narrative by blending the tangible with the transcendent.
- Farther back within the domain, the vision is impeded by an impenetrable screen of foliage.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Edgar Allan Poe - All at once his eyes fell upon the mirror again, and again he beheld the vision.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo - And as Peter was thinking of the vision, the Spirit said to him: Behold three men seek thee.
— from The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete - Genesis Chapter 32 Jacob's vision of angels; his message and presents to Esau; his wrestling with an angel. 32:1.
— from The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete - Ezechiel Chapter 40 The prophet sees in a vision the rebuilding of the temple: the dimensions of several parts thereof.
— from The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete - The whole resulting vision, as it is sustained from moment to moment by present experience and instinct, has no value apart from actual ideals.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana - It is true that memory sometimes, as in a vision, seems to raise the curtain upon the past and restore it to us in its pristine reality.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana