Fire And Ice By Robert Frost

Both “Fire and Ice” and “Nothing Gold Can Stay” are great reads. They have their differences, but they have similarity’s as well. Having the common themes, while staying unique is impressive. The shortness of good things, stressed in the first poem. As well as the argument of how the world will end. These poems by Robert Frost make you think, that is what makes them so memorable.

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

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

Robert Frost was born March 26, 1874 at San Francisco, California and died January 29, 1963 at Boston, Massachusetts. Frost was an educator and poet. He is widely known for his poetry; some of Frost’s famous work includes The Road Not Taken, Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening, Mending Wall, and Out, Out─. Out, Out─ tells a story of a young boy cutting wood to help provide for his family. He then acquires an injury on his hand by the saw. The boy ends up dying due to the severity of his wound. His family returns to their duties. This poem uses many elements to emphasize death. Robert Frost uses the poetic elements of imagery, figures of speech, and symbolism to illustrate the theme of death in the poem Out, Out─.

Robert Frost was an inspirational poet, he had some hard times in his life but in a way it has helped him in his writing. some of his most famous poems are The Road Not Taken, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, Fire and Ice, Nothing Gold Can Stay, A Question. Frost time period was the modernist period which was from 1910-1965. All events that happen in a person's life could have an effect on them either positive or negative way. Robert Frost's past had an affect on his writing.

Everyone has wonder what life would have been like if they had done things differently and at one point in their life they have ask themselves the same question, “What if I...” had gone to college, got a different job, had children, or married the other person, etc.. Some people have got to go back and change the course of their life others except what they have and make the best of it. Some people think their life would have been better or happier had they did things differently, but for Dexter Green, from the short story Winter Dreams, I feel that he made the right decision for his life. Love does not always bring happiness.

Firstly, the poem “Fire and Ice”, written by Robert Frost, uses tone and poetic language in order for the reader to understand that the poem is about two opposite things being able to equally destroy us. In the poem, the lines that read, “From what I’ve tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire” the poet is using fire as a symbol for desire. This explains that the things that we desire most have the ability to destroy us. Additionally, the lines that read, “I think I

Robert Frost juxtaposes two potential causes of earth’s end. Fire or ice are the two options, with both being destructive. Frost compares fire with desire, and ice with hate. Desire and hate are two contrasting emotions within humans.

Robert Frost was a world-renowned poet who wrote many famous poems such as “The Road Not Taken,” “Nothing Gold Can Stay,” and the poem we will be discussing today “Fire and Ice.” Frost sets this poem up as an argument between two sides about what will destroy the world, fire from a meteor strike or another ice age. Yet instead of looking at it from a purely scientific point of view, Frost prefers to take an emotional point of view. He attributes fire with the emotions of desire and passion, and ice with hatred. He then uses this view to conclude that fire will more likely destroy the world rather than ice, but to truly understand his argument you must look into his past.

In Robert Frost's poem, "Fire and Ice," Robert compares the world to fire and ice. He mentions ice is a destruction, and he is in favor of fire. According Frost's poem, Robert states, "I think I know enough of hate -To say that for destruction ice" (6-7). This quote is a metaphor, because the world is being compared to ice. The quote describes that the world is full of hate and chilliness like

“The Bells,” by Edgar Allen Poe is a poem about a man who has bells present in every major event that has happened throughout his life, Each event included special and happy moments until the ringing of the loud alarum bells. This bell indicated the death of speakers beloved wife this tragic event devastated him he no longer found the joy in bells they were just a reminder that his lover was no longer with him. “Fire and Ice,” by Robert Frost is a poem that questions whether the world will end in fire or ice. The fire represents the desires of the world and people will lend us into the fire, the ice represents hate which causes people to be cold-hearted. “A Road Not Taken,” also by Robert Frost is based on a man that sees two paths and they are both the same. These paths

Frost’s use of personification in this line is overwhelming, calling attention to the speaker’s newly awakened sense of closeness with other people. The speaker, overjoyed to see the tuft of flowers amidst the destruction of the rest of the field, realizes that the mower must have also seen the beauty of the flowers, noting, “The mower in the dew had loved them thus,/By leaving them to flourish, not for us” (ln 27-28). The speaker understands that the mower had left the flowers for purely selfish reasons, but at the same time, he feels connected to the mower on the basis that they had both recognized and admired the beauty of the flowers. This revelation leads him to conclude that people are connected to each other in both obvious and subtle ways, calling the mower “a spirit kindred to my own” (ln. 35).

Robert Frost used nature’s phenomena to make us meditate. First, Fire and Ice talks us about how we should accept the positive and negative sides of life. It makes us understand that extremes are never good and that either ice or fire can burn you; it

“Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words,” Robert Frost once said. As is made fairly obvious by this quote, Frost was an adroit thinker. It seems like he spent much of his life thinking about the little things. He often pondered the meaning and symbolism of things he found in nature. Many readers find Robert Frost’s poems to be straightforward, yet his work contains deeper layers of complexity beneath the surface. These deeper layers of complexity can be clearly seen in his poems “ The Road Not Taken”, “Fire and Ice”, and “Birches”.

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.