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Literary notes about sweet (AI summary)

Writers deploy "sweet" in diverse ways to evoke not only a pleasing taste or scent but also deeper emotional and symbolic layers. At times, it connotes tender affection and gentle beauty, as seen when describing a beloved’s eyes or disposition in Shakespearean verse [1][2][3][4]. In other passages, it creates a striking contrast between bitter pain and the hope of a more delightful future, suggesting a duality of human experience [5][6]. It is also employed to capture sensory charm in nature—a sweet fragrance, air, or visual scene—that enlivens the narrative with warmth and tenderness [7][8]. Whether used in the realm of romance, nature, or philosophical musings, "sweet" enriches the text by layering literal delight with metaphorical resonance [9][10].
  1. LYSANDER She hath spied him already with those sweet eyes.
    — from A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
  2. While you, sweet dear, prove mistress of my heart.
    — from The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare
  3. Parting is such sweet sorrow That I shall say good night till it be morrow.
    — from Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
  4. Trust me, sweet, Out of this silence yet I pick'd a welcome;
    — from A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
  5. consider that the death to come is more bitter, and the life to come is more sweet."
    — from Fox's Book of Martyrs by John Foxe
  6. [Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet].
    — from Historic Tales: The Romance of Reality. Vol. 02 (of 15), American (2) by Charles Morris
  7. The very rankness of the smell of manure in the clear sweet air awoke something heady in his brain.
    — from Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small Town Life by Sherwood Anderson
  8. My palace with unblinded eyes, While this great bow will waver in the sun, And that sweet incense rise?" 6
    — from The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Baron Alfred Tennyson Tennyson
  9. When I build castles in the air, Void of sorrow and void of fear, Pleasing myself with phantasms sweet, Methinks the time runs very fleet.
    — from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton
  10. Deafe were the eares, not charm'd with that sweet sound Which did i'th spirit-instructed voice abound.
    — from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) by John Donne

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