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Literary notes about yield (AI summary)

The term "yield" is remarkably multifaceted in literature, serving both as a marker of physical production and as a metaphor for emotional or moral surrender. In many dramatic passages, characters use it to denote a reluctant submission to fate or authority, as when one admits defeat or concedes power [1, 2, 3]. At other times, it captures a natural process of generating fruit or profit, like the bountiful harvests mentioned in agricultural contexts [4, 5]. Authors also extend its use to broader themes of compromise and inevitability, whether in the expression of personal transformation [6, 7] or in the strategic relinquishing of control in battle or politics [8, 9]. Thus, by oscillating between the tangible and the abstract, "yield" enriches the narrative and deepens the exploration of human and natural dynamics [10, 11].
  1. How have I offended, Wherein my death might yield her any profit, Or my life imply her any danger?
    — from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
  2. You press me far, and therefore I will yield.
    — from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
  3. Do you yield, sir, or shall I sweat for you?
    — from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
  4. Yield varies throughout the country according to the methods of cultivation and the condition of the season.
    — from All About Coffee by William H. Ukers
  5. Although the plants bear as early as the first year, the yield for the first two years is of no account; but by the fourth year the crop is large.
    — from All About Coffee by William H. Ukers
  6. To yield one wholly, and to feel a rapture In yielding, that must be eternal!
    — from Faust [part 1]. Translated Into English in the Original Metres by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  7. I yield, you have conquered: all who have ever loved before, you have conquered out and out in love's contest.
    — from Meditations by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius
  8. We may well suppose that neither side would entirely yield to the other, and consequently that the struggle could be terminated only by compromise.
    — from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton and John Jay and James Madison
  9. Yield not thou to distresses, but all the bolder go forth to meet them, as thy fortune shall allow thee way.
    — from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil
  10. My master, you have made me free by teaching me to yield to necessity.
    — from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  11. To yield to force is an act of necessity, not of will—at the most, an act of prudence.
    — from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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