This short poem summarizes the common question about the destiny of the world, wondering if it is more likely to be destroyed by fire or ice.
This poem is relevant to a scientific debate about the world’s destruction. Some scientists were convinced that the world would be scalded from its ardent core, while other scientists believed that an ice age would ruin the world.
There are two groups of people who believe in either fire or ice; this can be seen in line 1 and 2, where the author uses “some” to describe those two groups. It makes readers think about which group they prefer. In the end, I think the sentence “I think I know enough of hate, to say that for destruction ice, is also great” will convince people to say that the world can be destroyed by fire just as easily as by ice.
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In the end, the narrator actually concludes that fire and ice are similar to each other.
The author shows personal experience by “comparing” desire (line 3) with fire and hatred (line 6) with ice. One thing you may have noticed after that is that the world can be identified as a metaphor for a relationship. Because too much fire and passion can eventually consume a relationship, while cold nonchalance and hate can be equally destructive.
The poem uses three sets of interwoven rhymes, based on “-ire,” “-ice,” and “-ate”, it draws lines together linking ideas and images.
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Some, or actually many, of us go through our lives hoping to find that one special person that will love you back equally and provide your needs. But lines 6 and 7 prove that what Auden is trying to say and teach, is that if two people cannot love equally, you would rather be the one who loves more than the one to be loved
Oh how the flames have changed. No longer did the flames signify destruction, eating away at the pages that had once shaped society as we know it. No longer did the flamethrower clenched in a fireman’s fist burn the ideals that make us people. No longer did they dash the hopes, the dreams, of man. Fire, which was one demolition and violence, is now hope.
In Jack London's “To Build A Fire” the story follows a man and his dog in the Klondike and their obstacles of trying to get to the boys which are his compatriots. The story revolves around the winter and how mankind reacts to the wild. The author uses nature to illustrate the poem’s tone by vilifying nature and using it as an obstacle.
McClintock states, “Indeed, the cold itself functions as an invisible antagonist in ‘To Build a Fire’ It meets the man as soon as he goes outside into the brutal Klondike winter” (McClintock 347). McClintock really explains the idea of conflict of the cold within the short story. Telling on how much it really is an enemy and the factor it plays. The Man also faces himself as an enemy, being he is too foolish to learn when he is wrong. He constantly fights his own foolishness everytime he goes against the more experienced advice he is given. The narrator tells, “You were right, old hoss; you were right” (London 506). It is obvious that the Man realizes that his foolishness of not listening to the Old Timer lead to his death. Since the theme of foolishness plays a respectable role in this story, the conflicts given throughout the story shows the readers on how the main character could have avoided a number of conflicts, just by listening to the advice he was given. Furthermore, the conflicts throughout the story exemplify the theme of foolishness.
civilization being lost. The beast is the savagery all human being have within us. “ What
Throughout the novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, fire and water is a recurring motif. This motif is not only found in Bradbury’s novel but also in Matt Daffern’s poem, “Fire and Water.” Both works present a myriad of interpretations as to the nature and interaction between fire and water. Fire can mean anger, destruction, strength, or rebirth. Water can symbolize complacency, peace, rationality, or cleansing. These separate and opposite forces have contrasting qualities. However, there is a clear correlation between the novel and the poem as they illustrate that fire and water are closer than what one may normally think and they also emphasize the balance of both.
Although this poem also is connected with nature, the theme is more universal in that it could be related to Armageddon, or the end of the world. Even though this theme may seem simple, it is really complex because we do not know how Frost could possibly
In the poem, it is the human race that is systematically eliminating what is left of the remains of earth’s nature.
Love makes people become selfish, but it is also makes the world greater. In this poem, the world that the speaker lives and loves is not limited in “my North, my South, my East and West / my working week and my Sunday rest” (9-10), it spreads to “My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song (11). The poem’s imagery dominates most of the third stanza giving readers an image of a peaceful world in which everything is in order. However, the last sentence of the stanza is the decisive element. This element not only destroys the inner world of the speaker, but it also sends out the message that love or life is mortal.
Where, this line explains when the lover gives a quality of a human being to something abstract.
This poem is typical of the poet’s style because Frost writes a lot about human nature and compares people to nature itself. He judges people and society as a whole. He also uses a lot of literary devices in his poems like metaphors. Frost describes nature in beautiful ways in his poems and “Fire and Ice” is just like the rest of them. It isn’t a departure of common themes.
The author's rhyme scheme is as follows, ABBAx2 and CCDx2. The rhyme scheme creates a pattern in which the reader can figure out what the author is getting at, such as in the quote "What would be more immovable or stronger? What becomes more and more secure, the longer", ("Sonnet on Love XIII") in this quote his rhyme scheme is alluding to the fact that he is speaking about or getting at the word love and its connotation, he does this in a very discrete but in stunning fashion. The rhyme scheme directly correlates with the tone in the matter that, it speaks in a loving manner as provided in the quote
Finally, the speaker compares himself to the glowing remnants of a fire, which lies on the ashes of the logs that once enabled it to burn. In contrast, the love between the speaker and his beloved remains strong even though he may not live long. Here the speaker employs another kind of figurative language, the paradox, to emphasize that their love, unlike the fire, is unalterable and everlasting.
This text will be examining 3 different scientific poems about global warming and explore the beliefs of the writers compared to the writer of this text. This essay will then explore how the different poem styles were used to target different audiences and it will also examine the broader messages hidden in the poems.
This is one of Robert Frost simplest poems. When I initially read this poem, the first thing that came to my mind was the biblical theory. In the second line "Some say in ice" furthered my theory. In the Bible it is told that God destroyed Earth with water the first time he came to get his people (the
The great debate of whether the world will end in a fiery ball of destruction or a frozen wasteland has baffled the minds of many people. A man named Robert Frost has written a poem called "Fire and Ice" that describes his thoughts on how he would prefer to leave this world. Upon reading this poem, the reader can derive two distinct meanings of fire and ice; one being of actual fire and ice destroying the world, and the other having symbols for the fire and ice, such as fire being desire or passion and ice being hatred and deceit. Although this poem is one of his shortest poems with only nine lines, it is also one of the most famous works that he has ever created.