“And will never allow me to blarney
My way to getting
the fame and the girl and the money
all at one sitting.” (Larkin 801).
These four lines make me thing the second toad has to be honesty or pride. These to things are quite similar and could probably be replaced with many synonyms but I will stick to these two. This stanza seems to represent an ingrained habit. This habit is like work in its continual existence. It sticks with the narrator for his whole life. It weighs him down just as much as work does. It presses him into a rut which he cannot escape. They are like wagon wheel tracks which cannot be easily avoided. They could also be like when one drives his car tire of the road and it tries to suck the whole car into the ditch. This is kind of like the last two lines were he explains how incredibility difficulty it is to escape these toads.
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