Analyzing The Poem 'Two Tramps In Mud Time'

In the poem, “Two Tramps in Mud Time” (Robert Frost), the speaker changes his knowledge of himself. In the short story, “Star Food” (Ethan Canin), Dade is constantly being told who to be and in the end, he to an extent figures it out. In the beginning of “Two Tramps in Mud Time” (Robert Frost), the speaker was content with his job and he was not going to give his job away to two strangers. Textual evidence supporting this is “The time when most I loved my task these two must make me love it more by coming with what they came to ask.”(35 “Two Tramps in Mud Time” Robert Frost). In the end of this poem, the speaker realizes that the strangers need his job, while he is just doing it because he loves it and doesn’t need it. “They knew they had but

Textual evidence supporting Dade’s mother’s ideals for him is “But there was also limited fame. Newton and Galileo and Enrico Fermi were men of limited fame, and as I stood there with the atomizer in my hands my mother’s eyes watered over and she told me she knew in her heart that one day I was going to be a man of limited fame.”(“Star Food” Ethan Canin). An example supporting Dade’s father’s ideals for him is “…my father took me to the back to talk about work and discipline…” In the poem, “Two Tramps in Mud Time” (Robert Frost), the speaker changes his knowledge of himself. In the short story, “Star Food” (Ethan Canin), Dade is constantly being told who to be and in the end, he to an extent figures it

Textual evidence supporting this is “The time when most I loved my task these two must make me love it more by coming with what they came to ask.”(35 “Two Tramps in Mud Time” Robert Frost). In the end of this poem, the speaker realizes that the strangers need his job, while he is just doing it because he loves it and doesn’t need it. “They knew they had but to stay their stay and all their logic would fill my head: as that I had no right to play with what was another man’s work for gain.”(Two Tramps in Mud Time Robert Frost). In “Star Food” (Ethan Canin), his mother wants Dade to have “limited fame,” while Dade’s father wants him to get to work. “But there was also limited fame. Newton and Galileo and Enrico Fermi were men of limited fame, and as I stood there with the atomizer in my hands my mother’s eyes watered over and she told me she knew in her heart that one day I was going to be a man of limited fame.” (“Star Food” Ethan Canin). At the end of this story, Dade thinks he knows who he is, but it is not his mother or his