Literary notes about cluster (AI summary)
In literature, the term "cluster" is often used to evoke a sense of proximity and collective unity, whether referring to groups of people, objects, or abstract ideas. Authors employ the term to describe a tight grouping that can be both physical and metaphorical. For instance, a cluster of children gathered around an ice-cream cart ([1]) or a tightly knit assembly of relatives revealed in a moment of anxiety ([2]) creates an immediate visual and emotional impact. The word also illustrates natural formations, as when islands appear as a scattered cluster in the ocean ([3]), or stars cluster around a single luminous point ([4], [5]). Moreover, "cluster" can suggest interconnected ideas or events, enhancing the narrative’s depth by emphasizing how various elements come together to form a cohesive whole ([6], [7]).
- Round the ice-cream cart, with its striped awning and bright brass cover, the children cluster.
— from The Garden Party, and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield - Duncan kept close at his heels, and soon found himself in the center of a cluster of twenty anxious relatives and friends.
— from The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper - Below me in the ocean lay a cluster of black specks, which undoubtedly were islands.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition by Edgar Allan Poe - A cluster of seven stars in the constellation Taurus or the Bull.
— from The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete - Like gilded bees the stars cluster round her.
— from Intentions by Oscar Wilde - Then those episodes must be carefully hit on, which cluster about the desired secret and from which its importance arises.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross - In both cases the facts are automatically foreshortened and made to cluster, as it were providentially, about a chosen interest.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana
