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].
- 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 - You press me far, and therefore I will yield.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare - Do you yield, sir, or shall I sweat for you?
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - My master, you have made me free by teaching me to yield to necessity.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau - 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