Literary notes about World (AI summary)
Writers employ "world" in myriad ways, often using it as a multifaceted metaphor that transcends its literal meaning. In some texts it denotes the tangible physical realm—a stage for journeys, conflicts, and explorations of human nature ([1], [2])—while in others it signifies an abstract domain of ideas, emotions, or even spiritual experience ([3], [4]). At times, "world" represents the societal arena in which personal desires and public reputations are both manifested and contested ([5], [6], [7]), whereas in more philosophical or poetic contexts it evokes an inner landscape of perception and transformation ([8], [9]). This breadth of usage attests to its power as a literary device capable of capturing the complexities of both the universe at large and the intimate conditions of human existence.
- ‘I have almost forgotten that there is anything to do in the world but to go out tossing on the sea here.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens - He had not proceeded two hundred steps, however, when, "by the greatest chance in the world," he met Fix.
— from Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne - The world of ideas is large and cannot be exhausted."
— from The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov - In my dream, in my last morning-dream, I stood to-day on a promontory— beyond the world; I held a pair of scales, and WEIGHED the world.
— from Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world."
— from Percy Bysshe Shelley as a Philosopher and Reformer by Charles Sotheran - My own one, I have never loved any one in the world but you.
— from The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People by Oscar Wilde - That is to say, she was now better able to stifle the emotions of which the conventions and the world disapprove.
— from A Room with a View by E. M. Forster - Let our attitude be such that we should not quake even if the world fell in ruins about us:— Si fractus illabatur orbis Impavidum ferient ruinae .[1]
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Counsels and Maxims by Arthur Schopenhauer - In these first two volumes the poet is satisfied with painting in words, full of sonorous beauty, the surrounding world.
— from Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke
