Robert Frost Juxtaposes Two Potential Causes Of Earth's End

Emotions play a big part in people’s daily life. In Mary Shelley's book, Frankenstein, emotions take a central role in the character’s lives. In the beginning of the book, Shelley portrays Victor as a loving character, “With this deep consciousness of what they owed towards the being to which they had given life, added to the active spirit of tenderness that animated both, it may be imagined that while during every hour of my infant life I received a lesson of patience, of charity, and of self control, I was so guided by a silken cord that all seemed but one train of enjoyment to me.” (32).

Impulsivity. It hunts, it haunts, and occasionally it can eat a person alive to the point of sheer destruction. Impulsivity can alter a human’s life in just one single second. An impulsive decision has power far beyond what one might imagine or originally perceive. In the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, Victor Frankenstein deeply senses the repercussions of his impulsive as well as passionate decision to create a creature without thinking about the major consequences that could occur. As a result, his life is transformed. The primary truth of consequences of impulsive and passionate decisions are revealed in this novel through experiences and warnings of loneliness, rage, and unhappiness of Frankenstein.

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

Desire has manipulated creatures since the beginning of time. The human race is particularly known for the embracement, and chasing of these desires. Most dream of a protected family, some wish for knowledge, and some want revenge. Frankenstein portrays how desire controls those names in dreadful situations. Frankenstein had a deep lust for knowledge.

To be able to feel sympathy, humans first must be able to read into and understand another’s emotions. Mary Shelley uses this human aspect in her novel Frankenstein, as readers’ emotions are played. Set in the early 1900s, the novel is a recount of Victor Frankenstein’s life as he tells it to Robert Walter, a man leading an exploration to the North Pole. Frankenstein starts his narrative explaining how he was a very curious child, and eventually went off to college and conducted an experiment on his own. Frankenstein ended up creating a monster, which changed Frankenstein’s life for the worse. In Mary Shelley’s novel, Frankenstein’s monster earns the reader’s sympathy and pity because after being rejected by his creator he is forced to

Often times one may aspire to do something driven by emotion but is halted by his knowledge of his moral duties. This creates the conflict of making a decision based on passion or based on responsibility. This conflict of passion versus responsibility is explored in Mary Shelley’s gothic novel, Frankenstein. Shelley uses the character of Victor Frankenstein to convey her message and to highlight this conflict in multiple cases throughout the novel. Victor’s internal struggle between what he desires to do and what he should do causes him suffering, pain, guilt and death.

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

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.

Nature's reaction to that desire. The creation of the character Victor Frankenstein represents all of humanity in

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

The use of the strength of emotions in her classic novel Frankenstein empowered Mary Shelley to build a strong connection with its readers and rule their hearts for hundreds of years today. Shelley beautifully incorporated different feelings into her writing to provide visualization of events as the readers read through pages and feel the true essence of the characters’ sensations. Some of the emotions depict the tragedies of Shelley’s own life, thus adding life to the story. In short, Shelley’s Frankenstein is an emotional roller coaster covering a wide range of human emotions from joy and sorrow to hatred and revenge, and highlighting how different experiences of lives modify these sentiments into one another.

The title of this poem is ‘’Fire and Ice’’ it is written by Robert Frost and is in a first person point of view. A group of people discuss how the world will end, either in fire or in ice and the narrator shares his personal experiences of “ice’’ and ‘’fire’’. There are many ways the words in this poem can be interpreted, at first glance it seems like Frost is talking about the end of the world but it also can be about the power that human beings have to harm and destroy one another. When reading this I kept seeing the world ending in a great ball of fire like a nuclear war or a meteor turning everything to ashes and a new ice age also bringing destruction to all living things but I was taking the words to literal. You might have heard the quote “ice cold’’ I think Frost meant to say that people can be filled with such hate that eventually a person becomes emotionless leading me to believe that maybe he was suffering from overwhelming distress from a recent relationship and had brought up these thoughts about the world.

Frost’s poem has a great sense of irony towards the end, “I shall be telling this with a sigh / somewhere ages and ages hence” (16-17). The irony is that while he’s making his choice he is already anticipating how he will tell the story in the future, almost adding a sense of drama

The human race’s complexity is so muddled with various desires, styles, and actions that even a substantial response could only explain a fragment of human nature, but, even with the intricacy of humanity, there is a barrier an ethical conscience held by the human race as a whole that separates actions human and inhuman. In Mary Shelly’s novel Frankenstein, the characters Dr. Frankenstein and the creature he reanimates walk along the separation line between human and inhuman. Shelly uses the idealisms like Promethean desire and existential questions to exemplify the natural yearnings that humans strive for as they search for their purpose and aspire for something greater. Frankenstein’s creature and

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.