Literary notes about foreshore (AI summary)
The term "foreshore" has been used in literature to evoke the transient boundary where land meets the relentless force of the sea. In Jules Verne’s work [1], it serves as a measurable, almost clinical expanse delineating where terrestrial exploration begins at the edge of nature. J. M. Synge, on the other hand, imbues the foreshore with a dynamic, almost mythic quality in his play [2], framing it as the stage of forgotten battles against an overwhelming natural tide. Similarly, James Joyce uses the term in [3] to depict the physical and metaphorical retreat of the tides, emphasizing the foreshore as a fleeting, transformative zone where the remnants of the past are washed away by nature’s inexorable progress.
- The distance between the foreshore at high water and the foot of the rocks was considerable.
— from A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne - Go on to the foreshore if it's fighting you want, where the rising tide will wash all traces from the memory of man.
— from The Playboy of the Western World: A Comedy in Three Acts by J. M. Synge - The sea had fallen below the line of seawrack on the shallow side of the breakwater and already the tide was running out fast along the foreshore.
— from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
