Literary notes about intertwined (AI summary)
In literature, the term intertwined is employed to evoke images of both physical blending and abstract, inextricable connections. Writers use it to describe how tangible elements, such as bodies, branches, or threads, merge into a single, unified form as seen in works that depict nature’s complexity and the melding of identities ([1], [2], [3]). At the same time, intertwined conveys the fusion of ideas, destinies, and emotions, suggesting that disparate facets of memory and fate are bound together, much like the merging of personal histories or cultural influences ([4], [5], [6]). This dual capacity to illustrate both concrete and metaphorical union enriches narrative depth, allowing authors to explore themes of causality, interdependence, and the subtle interplay between contrasting forces in life ([7], [8], [9]).
- With these were intertwined undulating snakes of green, and behind these was a broad mass of lesser light.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy - Near it, on the sloping bank, stood two large trees, an elm and an ash, so intertwined as to appear like one tree.
— from The Black Hawk War Including a Review of Black Hawk's Life by Frank Everett Stevens - She was pale and angular, her long thin face was inhabited by sad dark eyes and her black hair intertwined with golden fillets and curious clasps.
— from The Author of Beltraffio by Henry James - Almost every place in the surrounding area is intertwined with some memory of the patriarchs.
— from Travel Tales in the Promised Land (Palestine) by Karl May - Our individual fates are linked, our futures intertwined.
— from State of the Union Addresses by Jimmy Carter - In both his life and his poetry his visionary reforming zeal and his superb lyric instinct are inextricably intertwined.
— from A History of English Literature by Robert Huntington Fletcher - European music seems to be intertwined with its material life, so that the text of its songs may be as various as that life itself.
— from My Reminiscences by Rabindranath Tagore - Friendship and good cheer seem indissolubly intertwined.
— from Nineteen Centuries of Drink in England: A History by Richard Valpy French - Parallel to this is the genesis and destiny of music, an art originally closely intertwined with the dance.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana
