Literary notes about idealize (AI summary)
The term "idealize" in literature often signifies the act of transforming or elevating everyday experiences into refined, timeless ideals. For instance, Pushkin portrays poets as naturally inclined to dream and beautify their visions of love [1], while Plato uses the term to describe how art doesn't merely capture transient thoughts but elevates them into permanent, abstract ideals that lie between the tangible and the conceptual [2, 3]. Guy de Maupassant similarly uses the term to suggest that special, almost divinely orchestrated nights help magnify the beauty of human affection [4]. In a sociological context, the word captures how settlers tend to embellish memories of their former homes, presenting them in an idealized light [5]. Even the evolution of the word itself—from "idealise" to "idealize"—highlights its flexible nature in literary traditions [6].
- Here I remark all poets are Love to idealize inclined; I have dreamed many a vision fair
— from Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin - Still, works of art have a permanent element; they idealize and detain the passing thought, and are the intermediates between sense and ideas.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato - Still, works of art have a permanent element; they idealize and detain the passing thought, and are the intermediates between sense and ideas.
— from The Republic by Plato - And he said unto himself: “Perhaps God has made such nights as these to idealize the love of men.”
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant - Once settled on the new land, however, immigrants inevitably remember and idealize the home they have left.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. Burgess and Robert Ezra Park - Some words containing the letters "ise" in the original text, such as "idealise," had these letters changed to "ize," such as "idealize."
— from Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
