Literary notes about blizzard (AI summary)
The word "blizzard" in literature is used both as a vivid description of a fierce, often life-threatening storm and as a profound metaphor for overwhelming adversity. Authors depict it as a force of nature that not only shapes the physical landscape—holding back travelers for days or driving characters into peril ([1], [2], [3])—but also as an almost sentient presence that embodies isolation, struggle, and even wild unpredictability ([4], [5]). In some passages, a blizzard becomes a symbol of nature’s indifferent rage against human frailty, intensifying the narrative with its relentless, almost poetic fury ([6], [7], [8]).
- In the morning it was still coming down with a high wind, and the papers announced a blizzard.
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser - A blizzard raged, driving the fine snows into eyes and skin like hot salt.
— from Canada: the Empire of the NorthBeing the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom by Agnes C. Laut - “There’s no crossing the mountains in such a blizzard.—I say, have there been any avalanches on Mount Krestov?”
— from A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Iurevich Lermontov - “Right here,” responded Blizzard, and the old rascal stopped at a few paces from us.
— from Pussy Black-Face; Or, The Story of a Kitten and Her Friends by Marshall Saunders - Captain Blizzard and Mr. Finney looked solemnly at Chris who looked as solemnly back.
— from Mr. Wicker's Window by Carley Dawson - "You won't leave Blizzard up to me all alone, will you?
— from The Penalty by Gouverneur Morris - We found her cabin just in the nick of time, for we were caught in a blizzard.
— from Ned Wilding's Disappearance; or, The Darewell Chums in the City by Allen Chapman - The fury of a Plains blizzard would have quickly overcome her, but this was a lingering fight against cold and a pathless solitude.
— from Winning the Wilderness by Margaret Hill McCarter
