Literary notes about cumbersome (AI summary)
Across various literary works, the word "cumbersome" is employed to evoke a sense of heaviness, clumsiness, or an unwieldy nature in both literal and metaphorical contexts. For example, Oscar Wilde uses it to distill a mass of creative work into a finer essence, suggesting that even great ideas can be burdened by their own weight [1]. Similarly, the term is applied to physical impediments, as seen in descriptions of costly coffee-making apparatus [2] and heavy luggage that impedes progress [3], while Pushkin and Joyce extend its use to portray clumsy physical forms and mechanical oddities [4, 5]. In a more personal or imaginative vein, Fitzgerald captures an internal struggle with experiences that are difficult to integrate into one’s life narrative [6], and even Wells employs the word to underscore the necessity of discarding the useless or mischievous elements of life [7]. Thus, across literature, "cumbersome" consistently serves as a versatile descriptor for anything that is awkwardly bulky or metaphorically burdensome [8, 9].