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Literary notes about bloom (AI summary)

Literary writers often use "bloom" to evoke the vivid imagery of growth and the ephemeral nature of beauty. In some works it symbolizes a moment of renewal or the fleeting prime of youth—as when the fading of once-vibrant life is likened to a flower that can no longer bloom [1, 2]. At other times, the word underscores the brilliance and flourishing spirit of nature and human emotion, capturing the radiance of a summer day or the effulgence of inner life [3, 4]. In modern narratives, it even plays a dual role, serving both as a lyrical metaphor and as a distinctive character trait woven into dialogue and social interactions, thereby enriching the text’s layers of meaning [5, 6].
  1. "You might as well ask whether an old woman's wrinkled face could ever bloom again." "See!" answered Dr. Heidegger.
    — from Twice-told tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  2. He looked at her features with anguish: the first bloom of youth had long faded from this exhausted face.
    — from The possessed : by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  3. The bloom of a fine summer's day; While worth in the mind o' my Phillis, Will flourish without a decay.
    — from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns
  4. "Whither have ye fled, the tears of mine eyes and the bloom of my heart?
    — from Ecce Homo by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
  5. There’s a touch of the artist about old Bloom.
    — from Ulysses by James Joyce
  6. BLOOM: (Hatless, flushed, covered with burrs of thistledown and gorsespine.)
    — from Ulysses by James Joyce

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