Literary notes about blur (AI summary)
In literature, the term “blur” is used both as a vivid visual cue and as a metaphor for layers of uncertainty or emotion. Authors deploy it to depict physical scenes where objects lose their clear outlines—such as a dim, indistinct copse near a church [1] or a rapidly moving figure framed by an ambiguous haze [2, 3]—while others use it to suggest the fading of memories or the distortion of experience, as seen in the depiction of lingering, sorrowful recollections [4]. In some works, the word encapsulates cultural or inherent traits that defy erasure, highlighting the indelible marks of character even when other features might fade into a mere smear of perception [5].
- Three-quarters of a mile to the right of the church there was a copse like a dark blur—it was Count Koltonovitch’s.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of Short Stories by Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov - Presently some chance whim came to the pestering blur, and it began to coil heavily away.
— from The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War by Stephen Crane - In his haste his eyes almost closed, and the scene was a wild blur.
— from The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War by Stephen Crane - The after-effects of thoughts blur the new perceptions.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud - And if my stocking hung too high, Would it blur the Christmas glee, That not a Santa Claus could reach
— from Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete by Emily Dickinson
