 | Robert Frost - 1979 - 642 pages
...two exist in twain Theirs was the better right — agreed. But yield who will to their separation, 65 My object in living is to unite My avocation and my...need are one, And the work is play for mortal stakes, 70 Is the deed ever really done For Heaven and the future's sakes. THE WHITE-TAILED HORNET The white-tailed... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...was need. And where the two exist in twain Theirs was the better right — agreed. (I. 62—64) 126 aughter. (1. 202-207) 63 The music stopp'd, and I stood still. every really done For Heaven and the future's sakes. (1. 69-72) BLPL; CMoP; LiTA; LiTM; MoAB; MoAmPo;... | |
 | Elisa New - 1993 - 294 pages
...Buell cultivates. 2. In Frost's parallel poetic manifesto, "Two Tramps at Mudtime," the poet declares, "My object in living is to unite / My avocation and my vocation / As my two eyes make one in sight." 3. For a focused discussion of the Puritan problem with images and how it was circumvented in Taylor's... | |
 | Douglas Robinson - 1994 - 340 pages
...but precisely something Frost is working at, striving for, an "object" he feels he needs to attain: But yield who will to their separation, My object...and my vocation As my two eyes make one in sight. (359) Astigmatic, I wouldn't know about that last line; maybe some people's eyes do make one in sight.... | |
 | Molly Wolf - 1998 - 152 pages
...computer at home), but it has Robert Frost's "Two Tramps in Mudtime " which ends, I remember, with: But yield who will to their separation My object in...my vocation As my two eyes make one in sight. Only when love and need are one And the work is play for mortal stakes Is the deed ever really done For... | |
 | Michael West - 2000 - 546 pages
...disporting themselves strenuously in scanty swimwear. Instead, like his disciple Robert Frost, Thoreau's object in living is "to unite / My avocation and my vocation / As my two eyes make one in sight." His ideal of play was not purely autotelic, for it had a goal. As his great essay "Walking" explained,... | |
 | Tyler Hoffman - 2001 - 284 pages
...to hear the ending as "rather sententious," as Malcolm Cowley does, with the narrator cautioning,150 But yield who will to their separation, My object...the work is play for mortal stakes, Is the deed ever reaUy done For Heaven and the future's sakes. (CPPP 252) But in what manner is the speaker moralizing... | |
 | Robert Faggen - 2001 - 308 pages
...or subversive? He proclaims that his "object in living is to unite / My avocation and my vocation," "where love and need are one/ And the work is play for mortal stakes." This pastoral hope is set, however, in "mud time," not a locus aemoenus but a space-time of change... | |
 | Robert Frost - 2002 - 548 pages
...exist in twain Theirs was the better right — agreed. But yield who will to their separation, fis My object in living is to unite My avocation and my...need are one, And the work is play for mortal stakes, 70 Is the deed ever really done For Heaven and the future's sakes. THE WHITE-TAILED HORNET The white-tailed... | |
 | Robert Frost - 2001 - 324 pages
...action, love and need are united. As the poet himself says at the end of "Two Tramps in Mud Time": But yield who will to their separation My object in living is to unite xxix As my two eyes make one in sight. Only where love and need are one, And the work is play for mortal... | |
| |
But yield who will to their separation, My object in living is to unite My avocation and my vocation As my two eyes make one in sight. 
