Literary notes about wild (AI summary)
The word “wild” in literature is a multifaceted descriptor that vividly captures both the beauty and the untamed nature of the world and the inner lives of characters. It often paints a picture of nature at its most unbridled, as when fields of wild flowers evoke a raw, unmanicured beauty ([1], [2], [3]), or when landscapes are depicted as untamed and vast ([4], [5], [6]). At the same time, “wild” conveys a sense of chaotic passion or ferocity, evident in portrayals of unrestrained emotions or actions—from a wild, incoherent outburst ([7]) to characters described with fierce, almost animalistic intensity ([8], [9], [10]). This duality allows writers to use the term as a bridge between the external natural world and the internal state of human tumult, imbuing their narratives with a dynamic and restless energy ([11], [12], [13]).
- “Meanwhile Tilottama attired in a single piece of red silk that exposed all her charms, came along, plucking wild flowers on her way.
— from The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 - We played games and ate dinner under the trees, and we found ferns and wild flowers.
— from The Story of My Life by Helen Keller - He has been buried in a piece of ground near where our camp now stands, at the foot of a small hill covered with shrubbery and many wild flowers.
— from Toronto of Old by Henry Scadding - What Britain was when Belin and his Celts were at work, Canada was in the days of our immediate fathers—a trackless wild.
— from Toronto of Old by Henry Scadding - the wild woods resound, Let your quick-falling strokes in due harmony ring; See, the lofty tree shivers—it falls to the ground!
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie - Rāma has meanwhile lived peacefully and happily with Sītā and his brother in the wild forest of Daṇḍaka.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell - What I have said is probably wild and incoherent.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of Short Stories by Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov - Leslie danced like one inspired; the wild, sweet abandon of the music seemed to have entered into and possessed her.
— from Anne's House of Dreams by L. M. Montgomery - “I tell you they were his,” he repeated, with wild eyes, “and they were full of men in masks!”
— from The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare by G. K. Chesterton - She looked at him continually with fierce eyes, and we felt that she was tortured by a wild longing for revenge.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant - We rose to the spirit of the time and the race became a wild rout, a stampede, a terrific panic.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain - And all the place that was so fair Was left a ruin wild and bare, As if the fury of the blast Or raging fire had o'er it passed.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki - Wild as was his inner revolt against this treatment, he uttered no word against the thieves and made no plea.
— from Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil by W. E. B. Du Bois
