Literary notes about correspondence (AI summary)
In literature, the word "correspondence" carries rich, multifaceted meanings. It is often employed to denote the exchange of letters that reveal personal, diplomatic, or historical insights, as in narratives where characters or officials engage in epistolary communication to verify facts or sustain relationships [1], [2], [3]. Simultaneously, the term extends to a metaphorical realm, signifying harmonious parallels or matching relationships between elements—whether comparing adjectives to nouns, aligning external stimuli with internal perceptions, or even linking moral ideals with human aspirations [4], [5], [6]. Thus, "correspondence" functions both as a literal record of written interaction and as a symbolic bridge connecting ideas, emotions, and societal structures throughout literary works.
- You have a correspondence by means of which you may, if you think it worth the trouble, go back to the source and verify the fact.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau - I have had some slight correspondence with your former friend, sir,’ addressing me, ‘but it has not restored his sense of duty or natural obligation.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens - And he went into the drawing-room where his correspondence awaited him.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant - Observe the correspondence between the adjectives in l. 244 and the nouns in l. 245.
— from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser - The image has natural affinity or correspondence with the outside stimulus which arouses it.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. Evans-Wentz - The essence of deity, as Augustine was inwardly convinced, was correspondence to human aspiration, moral perfection, and ideality.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana
