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Literary notes about arise (AI summary)

The word "arise" is employed in literature in a variety of ways, ranging from literal commands to evoke physical movement or awakening to metaphorical expressions of emergence and change. In some texts, it is presented as an imperative urging immediate action, as seen in commands like “Arise, take up thy bed and walk” [1] or “Arise, and go down into the potter's house” [2]. At the same time, thinkers use the term to describe the onset of situations or internal shifts—for example, when conflicts or doubts arise [3], or when ideas and virtues begin to emerge [4]. Poets and dramatists often harness its evocative power to symbolize rebirth or transformation, as in the imagery of brightness arising at evening [5] or the stirring call for a new beginning in song [6]. This versatility makes "arise" a potent vehicle for both concrete and abstract transitions, effectively bridging the worlds of action, reflection, and poetic inspiration.
  1. Which is easier, to say to the sick of the palsy: Thy sins are forgiven thee; or to say: Arise, take up thy bed and walk? 2:10.
    — from The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete
  2. Arise, and go down into the potter's house, and there thou shalt hear my words.
    — from The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete
  3. These arise when the discrepant claims of different ideals of conduct affect the community as a whole, and the need for readjustment is general.
    — from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey
  4. God knows whence they arise, these ideas that you speak of as base.
    — from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  5. And brightness like that of the noonday, shall arise to thee at evening: and when thou shalt think thyself consumed, thou shalt rise as the day star.
    — from The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete
  6. ‘Frowning, frowning night, O’er this desert bright Let thy moon arise, While I close my eyes.’
    — from Songs of Innocence and of Experience by William Blake

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