Literary notes about fecundity (AI summary)
Fecundity in literature often transcends its literal meaning of fertility and abundance, emerging as a rich metaphor for creative power and the generative forces of nature. Writers employ the term to evoke both the sensual and the divine—from describing the life‐giving qualities of mythic figures and goddesses [1][2] to signifying the prolific output of human thought and art [3][4]. At times, it also takes on a more measured aspect, as when authors reference demographic or biological productivity in a scholarly tone [5][6]. In these varied contexts, fecundity becomes a multifaceted emblem of growth, creativity, and the inexhaustible capacity of life to produce and renew itself.
- This was drawn by cats, her favourite animals, the emblems of caressing fondness and sensuality, or the personifications of fecundity.
— from Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas by H. A. Guerber - In regard to their functions, Juno and Diana were both goddesses of fecundity and childbirth, and both were sooner or later identified with the moon.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer - Fecundity is a mark of the genuine poet, and a glance through these pages will demonstrate how rich Mr. Rice is in vitality and variety of thought....
— from A Night in Avignon by Cale Young Rice - Mr. Poe has two of the prime qualities of genius, a faculty of vigorous yet minute analysis, and a wonderful fecundity of imagination.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 by Edgar Allan Poe - The average fecundity of a marriage in London is, as Mr Sadler tells us 2.35.
— from Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 2 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron - In a few years, without the numerous causes of destruction, which arrests their fecundity, these plants would overrun the earth.”
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne
