Fire And Ice By Robert Frost Meaning

     Frost?s poem delves deeper into the being and essence of life with his second set of lines. The first line states, ?Her early leaf?s a flower.? After the budding and sprouting, which is the birth of nature, is growth into a flower. This is the moment where noon turns to evening, where childhood turns into maturity, and where spring turns into summer. At this very moment is the ripe and prime age of things. The young flower stands straight up and basks in the sun, the now mature teenager runs playfully in the light, and the day and sunlight peak before descending ever so quickly into dusk. The second line of the second set states, ?But only so an hour,? which makes clear that yet again time is passing by and that a beginning will inevitably have an end.

In the poem, Frost is the narrator and he is speaking to the readers. The issue that Frost discusses is if the world will end in a blazing fire or in freezing ice. Based on the poem, Frost believes he would perish by fire because in verses 3 and 4 he wrote: From what I've tasted of desire, I hold with those who favor fire. But in verses 5, 6, 7, and 8 Frost wrote: But if it had to perish twice, I think I know

Can a cow be anything more than a cow, or a wall actually be something other than a wall? Robert Frost, who lived from 1874 to 1963 and was considered one of America’s most eminent poets, demonstrated metaphors frequently within his poems. Readers of Frost’s poetry are often faced with the question, “What is Robert Frost really trying to say?” It is without a shadow of doubt that the American poet had the capability of taking his poetry and turning it into something preternatural, but not without the help of metaphors. Frost elaborated the meaning of metaphor as, “Saying one thing and meaning another, saying one thing in terms of another….” Several pieces of his work provides images such as a cow, a flower, country roads, and a wall that serve as metaphors for larger ideas.

In Robert Frost’s poem “To the Thawing Wind,” in the literal sense, he is asking the Southwest wind to come, melt the snow and bring spring, but symbolically he is tired of the winter and wants warm weather. He wants to burst out of his cabin and have a good time, not thinking about poetry. The poet has been confined in his winter cabin and is wanting the wind and rain to melt the snow, so it will change his winter isolation. He has been longing for the “thawing wind” because that is when spring is coming. He is anticipating spring to come because it will bring him inspiration and the freedom needed to be able to do new things and enjoy everything good that comes with this season.

To analyze the poem better I took each word as if it symbolized a certain characteristic. In lines three and four, "From what I've tasted of desire I hold those who favor fire" it led me to believe that Frost was trying to use desire as a metaphor to fire. Desire, can usually be used a negative or a positive manner depending on the context it's use. In the poem I think that Frost is using it in a negative sense, because he is uses words like end, perish, and destruction in the poem. Negatively the word desire can mean the drive to win or receive something at any cost, the urge for power, which is very destructive. In lines six and nine "I think I know enough of hate to say that for destruction ice is also great and would suffice". Saying that ice is a metaphor to hate. The word hate is worldly known to have a negative condensation. Hate is also

In the poem “Fire and Ice” by Robert Frost, the incorporation of Deadly Sins, such as lust and wrath, is prevalent. The use of these sins allows the reader to feel passion and hatred throughout the poem. In Christianity, the Seven Deadly Sins are defined as “transgressions which are fatal to spiritual progress” (Deadly Sins). Lust is defined as “a very strong sexual desire” (Cambridge Dictionary), and wrath is defined as “extreme anger” (Cambridge Dictionary). Firstly, incorporation of the sin lust helps to create feelings of passion within the reader. Reference to lust is found in the first half of the poem where Frost states, “From what I’ve tasted of desire/ I hold with those who favor fire” (3-4). Desire is often associated with lust,

Do you believe in end-of-the-world prophecies? End-of-the-world prophecies are assumptions of when and how our world would end.

Frost also uses the trees in this poem to represent a way to get away from the cares and trials of life on Earth. He talks of getting away and coming back to start over as if climbing “towards heaven”. He desires to be free from it all, but then he says that he is afraid that the fates might misunderstand and take him away to never return. This is like most of us today. We want to go to Heaven, but we don’t want to die to get there.

Diverging being the key word in this line because it suggests that the traveler must make a choice. Line two the speaker expresses his grief of not being

Where as Thomas equates coldness to death, Frost equates coldness to life. Frost?s traveler is weary and tired and only feels the numbness around him. He elucidates on one man with the wish to die but

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

Another idea that came up during our discussion is the idea of introversion within the piece. I have always leaned towards being an introvert. I often like to wall myself off from others when I am feeling uncomfortable or not at my best. In the poem, Frost states, “To each the boulders that have fallen to each” (16). This line means that each person deals with his or her own problems. This idea is representative of my own way of thinking. I prefer to keep to myself. In my opinion, it is better to mind your own business than to nose your way into other people’s business. A similar idea of introversion earlier in the poem: “And on a day we meet to walk a line / And set this wall between us once again” (13-14). This is one of the few times that the two characters meet. It is ironic that one of their few interactions is to repair the fence that separates them in the first place. This expresses truly how alone people are as a result of hiding behind their boundaries. It is a representation of the introversion shown in both the poem and myself. I think that Frost’s intention with revealing this is to bring light to the loneliness of living behind a wall. Living behind a wall has its consequences and thus is not always good.

is saying, and Frosts personal pain that he is suffering from that he ingrains into this poem. The

When will the end come? It is human nature for humans to ask questions. Many of these questions are without answers and there is no possible way to come up with one. A common question that plagues the human race is “When will the world end?” For thousands of years, astrologers and psychics have been trying to come up with clues to when it all will end. There is a source, the Bible, which aids humans, specifically Christians, in trying to come up with some answers. Many places in the Bible such as Revelations, Ezekiel, Matthew, Daniel, and I Corinthians all give some clues to how and when the end of the world will come. Two articles that give some insight on this subject are “Visions or Heaven, Dreams of the End” by

Robert frost words describe the most destructive force which could bring the world to an end. This ruinous force is emotion; From Roberts words we found that from the quote “I hold with those who favor fire” he states that he sides with people that favor burning emotions such as lust will bring the world to a fiery end. From the next lines of poetry Robert state cold, heartless emotions of hate is another powerful force that could also put an end to the world. This is how I interpret Robert Frost Fire and Ice poem