Literary notes about tattered (AI summary)
The word "tattered" vividly conveys a sense of decay, wear, and neglect, imbuing objects and characters alike with an aura of hardship and history. It is often used to describe clothing or fabrics that have been ravaged by time or circumstance, as seen in the portrayal of a dress salvaged from a stormy sea [1] or the threadbare soldier in the midst of conflict [2][3]. Beyond garments, the term extends to objects such as documents and curtains, suggesting both physical deterioration and the emotional residue of past struggles [4][5][6]. Whether evoking the ragged appearance of a lone wanderer or the splintered fragments of a once-proud emblem, "tattered" serves as a powerful reminder of impermanence and decay in the literary landscape [7][8].
- My tattered dress was that in which I had crawled half alive from the tempestuous sea.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - He was startled from this view by a shrill outcry from the tattered man.
— from The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War by Stephen Crane - As they plodded on the tattered soldier continued to talk.
— from The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War by Stephen Crane - Beneath the novel lies a tattered copy of the report of the committee for last year.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of Short Stories by Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov - He looked at the yellow and tattered paper, at the dust, at his sofa....
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky - At the end of the hall hung a tattered green curtain that swayed and shook in the gusty wind which had followed him in from the street.
— from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde - The raging sea was swept with huge tattered clouds drenched by the waves.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne - But the Milky Way, it seemed to me, was still the same tattered streamer of star-dust as of yore.
— from The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
