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Literary notes about learn (AI summary)

Across literary texts, “learn” functions as a multifaceted term embodying not only the acquisition of factual knowledge but also the internalization of life’s lessons, emotional growth, and moral insight. In some works, it denotes the gradual process of mastering skills or overcoming personal obstacles, such as learning to contain oneself or to act with patience ([1], [2]), while in others it suggests the transformative act of understanding complex social or ethical nuances ([3], [4]). At times, the term hints at the deliberate act of teaching or the nuances of memory and experience, ranging from learning the nature of revenge and disdain ([5]) to embracing a broader spectrum of personal and communal truths ([6], [7]). Thus, “learn” in literature operates on multiple levels, symbolizing both intellectual instruction and the deeper moral and creative evolution of characters.
  1. He had to learn to contain himself again, and he hated it.
    — from The Rainbow by D. H. Lawrence
  2. We must not lose patience, we must learn to wait.
    — from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. Andersen
  3. Sure, I know the accepted explanation, but I think we should learn why it works and how to break a tabu.
    — from The Lani People by Jesse F. Bone
  4. His teachers complained that he would not learn, while his soul was brimming over with thirst for knowledge.
    — from Anna Karenina by graf Leo Tolstoy
  5. He despises me, I thought; but he shall learn that I despise him, and hold in equal contempt his punishments and his clemency.
    — from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  6. But “an author can only learn from art when he is to abandon himself to the direction of his genius.”
    — from On the Sublime by active 1st century Longinus
  7. Soon she will learn to tremble when she hears her master's footfall.
    — from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself by Harriet A. Jacobs

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