Paper 10 Fire and Ice poem by Robert Frost.

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S. B. GARDY DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH

M.K.BHAVNAGAR UNIVERSITY.

 
Name:- Vala Jyotsna Tanshukhbhai

Semester: - 3

Roll no: - 33

Enrollment No: - PG15101042

Year: - 2016-17

Paper Name: - 10

Topic: - Fire and Ice poem by Robert Frost.

Introduction:-

 





BORN - March 26, 1874 in San Francisco, California

DIED - January 29, 1963.

OCCUPATION – poet , Playwright.

NOTABLE AWARDS – Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Congressional

 

                                         Gold Medal.

Cleanth Brooks says.......

“Frost’s best poetry exhibits the structure of symbolist poetry. 

Much more clearly than does of many a modern poet”.

           “Critics say that Frost was a poet of Pastures and pain ,

            Mountain and rivers , woods and garden , fruits and  

              flowers , seeds and birds”

His famous works :-

“Fire and Ice”

“The Gift Outright”

 “Design”

 “Mending wall”

 “Home Burial”

About his poem :-

Fire and Ice :-

Some say the world will end in fire,

some say in ice.

From what I've tasted of desire

I hold with those who favor fire.

But if it had to perish twice,

I think i know enough of hate

To say that for destruction ice

Is also great

and would suffice

Introduction : -

The poem suggests that both desire and hate are 

strong emotions that could bring destruction, 

sadness, devastation to the world. Destruction of 

human lives destruction of human relationship 

within others destruction of the nature.

The speaker considers the age – old question of 

whether the world will end in fire or in ice. This is 

similar to another age-old question whether it 

would be preferable to freeze to death or burn to 

death. The speaker determines that either option 

would achieve its purpose sufficiently well.

Meaning of the title :-

Fire and Ice

Fire :- Pain, Desire

Ice :- Indifference, Hate

Theme :-

Theme that means central idea about this poem. 

“Fire” it is symbol for desire, “Ice” it is a symbols 

for hate. Both are connected with human nature so,  

Relationship is one of the main theme of the poem.

Symbols :-

Symbolism is a literary device that contains several 

layers of meaning. Meaning forms generally it is an 

object representing another to give it an entirely 

different meaning that is much deeper and more 

significant.

The concepts of Fire and Ice carry with them deep connotations 
that, in and of themselves, prompt the recollection of the 
sensations they embody.For example Fire elicits the feeling of 
heat and light, but also burning and pain.This particular image is 
well used by Frost to create a duality with both Fire and ice that 
then draws attention to the nature of the warning he creates.

Symbolism:

 Symbolism is the key to this poem. Frost very explicitly makes 

 symbols as given below.

Fire: Warmth, Emotions, Desire

Ice: Coldness, Dryness, Hatred

 Both are extremes and these extremes lead towards destruction. 

 Fire symbolize for desire, and ice symbolizes here for hate. This 

 coupled with the imagery that these symbols evoke and creates a 

 multidimensional complexity to the poem. Because of the deeper 

 meaning that fire and ice takes on the application and 

 understanding of the poem is altered.

Metaphor : -

"Some say the world will end in fire,

                          some say in ice."

 

Fire, Ice, World.

Fire

 

Desire : - Desire is most often connected with passion, love and 

sex but it can also be connected with wealth or power.

Ice

 

Hatred : - Hatred is usually associated with burning, but frost 

makes this hate cold and calculating.

World

Life : - “The world will end” (Line 1).

                 “Parish ( Line 5).

Death is connected with life, Perish brings up image of human life.

Imagery : -

 Stanza 1 Line 1

“ Some say the world will end in fire”

 This line contains two imageries. The visual imagery here can 

 encourage the readers to think that when they see fire it seems 

 like very terrible thing. Mean while the tactile imagery makes the 

 readers feel that fire is very very hot and dangerous.

 Stanza 1 Line 2

  “Some say in Ice”.

 

The visual imagery with the world ice makes the 

readers imagine that ice is a very horrible thing too. 

The tactile imagery makes the readers feel that ice 

will make them freezing.

 Stanza 1 Line 6

“I think i know enough of hate”

Organic imagery can be found in this line in the 

word hate because hate comes natural from 

someone's heart.

Stanza 1 Line 7

“To say that for destruction ice”

 This line proposes kinesthetic imagery because the 

 readers can assume the word say do a movement or 

 tension about the destruction of ice is also great.

Analysis :-

 This short poem of Robert Frost interprets his own 

 thinking about how probably the earth would be 

 destroyed the Indian oriental myth and western 

 myth both suggest that there would be the end of 

 this earth. The Indian oriental myth suggest that  

 the earth would be destroy because of water and 

 

 western Christian myth suggest the earth would be 

 destroy of fire. The present poem shows the poet 

 thinking about it.

 Some people are of the opinion that the earth would 

 be destroy because of fire while some other think 

 that the earth would be destroyed because use of  

 ice, water, the poet has made is study about desires

 of the people on the basis of that study the poet 

 comes to a conclusion that the earth would be 

 destroyed because the fire of never ending desires 

 but in the some earth is to be destroyed twist, the 

 

 second time it would be destroyed because of ice.

 The poet here refers to cold blooded hatred which 

 allow a person the very cool but full of hatred and 

 venom from inside so, from the second time it the 

 earth destroyed because of cold blooded 

 temperament with which remain covered modern

 man's hatred so, both Fire and Ice equally capable 

 of destroying the earth.

Conclusion :-

“Fire and Ice” is only poem of nine lines. Through this short 

poem Frost conveys his ideas and he succeeded in opening our 

eyes for deeper meaning.

 Desire to Fire and haste to ice are haste to ice are human 

 

 emotions, transformed into impersonal forces. This poem is a 

 

 lyric, which also expresses the poet’s dreaded acceptance of the 

 passion both of love and hatred in their most destructive from.




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