Literary notes about rive (AI summary)
In literature, "rive" is employed in a variety of ways that highlight both its literal and metaphorical power. It often denotes a forceful splitting or tearing apart, as seen when objects like helmets and rocks are described as being cleft apart by violent blows [1, 2, 3]. The term also conveys emotional intensity—for instance, sorrow that can "rive the heart" [4]—while simultaneously evoking the imagery of natural forces and dramatic landscapes, such as the splitting of wood [5, 6]. Additionally, "Rive" appears as a proper name, notably in the works featuring De la Rive [7, 8], and as a geographic reference in phrases like "rive gauche" [9, 10], illustrating its long-standing versatility in literary contexts.
- On his helmet the rubies did he rive; The stroke went through the helmet for it reached unto the flesh.
— from The Lay of the Cid - And at his haughtie helmet making mark, So hugely stroke, that it the steele did rive, And cleft his head.
— from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser - and if a bolt of fire Would rive the slumbrous summernoon While I do pray to thee alone, Think my belief would stronger grow!
— from The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Baron Alfred Tennyson Tennyson - O weep not, lady, weep not soe; Some ghostly comfort seek: Let not vain sorrow rive thy heart, Ne teares bedew thy cheek.
— from A Book of Old Ballads — Complete - the wood is white throughout and reather soft but very tough, and difficult to rive.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark and Meriwether Lewis - the latter they use always to rive or split their wood.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark and Meriwether Lewis - De la Rive placed an electro-magnet in an electric egg.
— from Auroræ: Their Characters and Spectra by J. Rand Capron - —I am much obliged to you for De la Rive's brochure
— from Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Henry Reeve, C.B., D.C.L. In Two Volumes. Volume II. by Henry Reeve - “I have a thousand shares in the Versailles rive gauche railway.
— from Cousin Betty by Honoré de Balzac - Sylvia decided in favor of rooms on the rive gauche .
— from The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett by Compton MacKenzie
