Literary notes about bubble (AI summary)
The word "bubble" serves as a multifaceted literary device, evoking both sensory imagery and metaphorical depth. It often conveys a sense of light, playful movement or fleeting sound, as when lively chatter "bubbles" along stony ways [1] or emotions "bubble over with gladness" [2]. In contrast, the term can underscore fragility and ephemerality—a speculative venture destined to burst [3] or the collapsing hope within one's heart [4]. At times, it even encapsulates the delicate boundary between the tangible and the elusive, shimmering on the surface of water or light as a metaphor for life’s transient beauty [5].
- I chatter over stony ways, In little sharps and trebles, I bubble into eddying bays, I babble on the pebbles.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by Dale Carnegie and J. Berg Esenwein - Some hands, when they clasp yours, [27] beam and bubble over with gladness.
— from The World I Live In by Helen Keller - "Well, I invested his money, poor fellow, in a bubble scheme, and lost it.
— from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy - The great bubble of hope burst in my breast, and my heart collapsed.
— from The Hungry Stones, and Other Stories by Rabindranath Tagore - The whirling bubble on the surface of a brook, admits us to the secret of the mechanics of the sky.
— from Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson
