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.

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.

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

“Fire and Ice” by Robert Frost, is a short poem about the negative effects of human emotions. Robert Frost uses allusion, metaphors, and understatement to prove that desire and hatred both have the power to destroy the world.

January 1st, 2000. December 21st, 2012. September 23rd, 2017. Conspiracy theorists have continually tried warning the public of what they think will bring the world to its end and yet the human race lives on, despite the arguments saying the opposite. It takes the termination of an situation to finally be able to grow from the circumstances. In the poem, ‘Fire and Ice’ written by Robert Frost, the narrator discusses their own idea of how the world will end, with reference to the 1920 debate on the same topic, coming to the conclusion that it is all up to the eyes of the beholder and that death is merely inevitable. With the tone of the poem being ironic but primarily accepting, it is the total the opposite and if not juxtaposes one of Frost’s other poems, ‘Home burial’ which accents a more depressing and a grieving nature. This poem does not discuss the end of everyone’s world, but the end of a couple’s world in which they’re in a strained relationship after the loss of their child. Both poems share the same topic ‘the end of life’, much like the film ‘Me, Earl and the Dying Girl’ in which the protagonist, Greg Gaines, reconnects with a family friend who has just been diagnosed with leukaemia. The film discusses the inevitability of her end in a misleading way, promising the audience that she does to die, however, they realise that the promise was a lie as she dies in a hospital bed whilst watching a film Greg made her as a dying wish. All three texts and all three of their protagonists grasp the concept of the end through the loss of life.

The poem is a first person narrative, where the author is the speaker. Frost uses words such as “fire” and “ice” to as a metaphor to describe the different manners in which the world will end; through the “fire” of passion or the “ice” of hatred. Frost uses a unique rhyme scheme to help lighten the subject and disguise the conversation as playful. The imagery in the poem helps Frost tell the reader about how he would “hold with those who favor fire. / But if it had to perish twice/… that for the destruction of ice/… would suffice.”

In the poem Fire and Ice, I feel in the beginning of two different kind of people in the world. The ones that think the world will end up in flames like hell, or those who think there will be a point in time where everything will freeze. I also notice that he could mean that this

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.

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

So “Fire and Ice” is about things being unsure. When it comes to decisions, there is always half and half,”Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice(p.5).” Those halfs are always opposites. To me this is explaining the significance of opposites. Sometimes those two opposites can have the same effect in a way. Fire and ice to me represents life and death to

In the poem “T he Bells” by Edgar Allan Poe the speaker describes sad and life changing events. The speaker of “The Bells” thinks the world would in in fire because of the tragic events of his life. “Hear the loud alarum bells- brazen bells what a tale of terror now their turbulency tells in the startled ear of night how they scream out their affright.” (Poe, lines 36-39) However, Poe would choose to go back and change the decision of him getting married so he would not have to go through the pain. While Edgar Allan Poe describes the emotions of a man, Robert Frost explains how those emotions affect the world in “Fire and Ice”, Frost explains that the world would end in fire because of the desire of others “some say in fire some say in ice

Natural Disasters of the Heart In the short poem “Fire and Ice”, Robert Frost says that the worldly feelings of desire and hatred will be the two factors that destroy our world. While comparing these two to fire and ice, Frost develops his theme using strong tones and symbolism. The speaker starts in the first two lines with a more separated tone by saying “Some say the world will end in fire, / Some say in ice” (Line 1-2).

In Robert Frost's poem "Fire and Ice" Frost uses figurative language as he says in the first line, "Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice". This does not literally mean the world will either end in fire or ice. " Fire and Ice" is a deeper meaning. The way I read it, it means good things will always come to an end.

“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.