Poetry Explication Of Fire And Ice By Robert Frost

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.

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

Robert Frost takes our imagination to a journey through wintertime with 
his two poems "Desert Places" and "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening". These two poems reflect the beautiful scenery that is present in the snow covered woods and awakens us to new feelings. Even though these poems both have winter settings they contain very different tones. One has a feeling of depressing loneliness and the other a feeling of welcome solitude. They show how the same setting can have totally different impacts on a person depending on 
their mindset at the time. These poems are both made up of simple stanzas and diction but they are not straightforward poems.

There are several likenesses and differences in these poems. They each have their own meaning; each represent a separate thing and each tell a different story. However, they are all indicative of Frost’s love of the outdoors, his true enjoyment of nature and his wistfulness at growing old. He seems to look back at youth with a sad longing.

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 style of the poem is more of a narrative, it paints a picture in my head of what is happening in it. It is not too long, but in the short length it spills a lot about the ideal of it. Frost is the main person speaking to us in this he is telling about his experience and how he's warning us about what could possibly happen.

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

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

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

First, the author talked about his mistakes by saying “Some time when the river is ice ask me mistakes I have made.” (par.1); this sentence refer to the consequences that we face as the outcomes of the mistakes we make. I also believe that the author used the word “ice” in his poem to represent negative consequences. Moreover, when the river is ice, it lost its natural beauty because we cannot hear anymore the sound of the river flow. Also, it becomes cold to be around the river. I

1. The author uses an AB rhyme scheme in the poem to create a lyrical flow throughout the poem which helps emphasize the gloomy and depressing setting of the winter time.

make a decision and at the end of the day, the nature of the decision

“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.