'Symbolism And Imagery In Fire And Ice'

The tone and mood are both very angry, with a lot of yelling going on, and using words to voice his concern like, “It’s scary” and “we are powerless”. But with every poem there is a deeper meaning. I think the deeper meaning of this poem is warning us where technology will take us. Throughout the poem he is showing examples of how life was before technology and how life is now, so then when you really start thinking about the poem, you have to think of where technology will take us. This is shown in lines 46-47.

This poem matters because it talks about how humans are ruining the world. The fire, or human desire, will take over because humans are becoming greedy and selfish, fulfilling their own desires even if it means the world falling apart. The ice, or hate, will take over

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 William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, he shows what he believe is truly hidden in people in a series of ideas and symbols hidden in people and objects. The symbolism of the fire, the conch and Piggy’s glasses are important for the message in the book.

Two themes the poem has is death and time. The poem displays the theme of time, because it starts out telling the story of a man who is from, and raises his children in, a noble and rich family. As his children get older, 2 of them died, and the others, to quote the poem “all were gone, or broken-winged or devoured by life”. He had lost, essentially all of his children, and as we find out his wife. The poem shows how he went from a great man with a happy family, to a lost man who is all alone. The next theme the poem shows is death. Death is all throughout the poem. It starts with a man living a good life, but as it goes on his first child leaves, his next 2 children die, and the next 3 become incredibly unsocial and that’s not even it! Near the end his wife, the mother of all 6 children, dies. “I sat under my cedar tree, till ninety years were tolled.” The poem ends with the man dying, after everything he had lost; he died in his favorite place to be, under his cedar tree.

As the poem goes on it gets deeper with meaning, sadder even. Lines four and five are the most crucial lines of the poem. Line three ends with the head giving the heart advice. “You will lose the ones you love. They will all go,” this isn’t the first thing someone wants to hear, especially not someone who is aware that they have just lost someone they love. But this is classic, logical advice that your emotions need to hear. What it means is that one day everyone you love will be gone, it is the sad truth of the world we live in. Nothing is forever. “But even the earth will go,

George Gascoigne’s sonnet, “For That He Looked Not upon Her,” portrays a sullen man, hurt by the woman he loved. Through the uses of form, diction, and imagery, the sonnet evokes a complex attitude in each quatrain elaborating on the stages of torment the speaker receives from his ex-lover. By using these literary devices, the speaker portrays the dangers of desire and the conflicts that arise from within it. Gascoigne conveys a solemn and melancholy complex attitude developed throughout the use of such literary devices. The attitude of the speaker, expressed through the form of the sonnet, explains the dangers of gazing at the woman who burned him.

In the poem, the contrast of hard negative connotations and soft sensitive words indicates his purpose of writing. Examples of soft words are “gently its touch, rouse, kind old sun, whispering, full-nerved, still warm” Examples of hard words are “snow, clays of a cold star, clay grew tall, fatuous sunbeams, break earth’s sleep at all”. The word clay reminds us that we came from clay and we return to dust. The choice of cold star probably refers to earth before it was inhabited which was also expressed in the bible “thou hast made me of clay and wilt thou bring me unto dust again”. The word fatuous shows the anger and frustration of the writer. Whispering has the feeling of anxiety and dread. The last line is an old existential question of “why are we here?” With the use of sound effects, themes, technique and language, the poem clearly shows the genuine emotions of empathy, waste and the futility of

Finally, these three poems all contain one common tone, bitterness. Wallace Stevens shows his bitterness towards the people on earth, in his poem, "Gubbinal." He blames the people for corrupting the world. He says it is ugly in line four. He even goes so far as to compare the sun, which is beautiful and perfect, to the world. The sun is beautiful because it has no humans to destroy it. Wallace Stevens emphasizes his feeling about the world, when he repeats, "The world is ugly,/And the people are sad," at the end of the poem. This shows that he strongly believes the world is corrupt and the people are evil. In the poem, "Fire and Ice," Robert Frost also shows his bitterness towards the people in the world. He feels either our desires or our hate will

People have different outlooks on life; some are positive and others are negative. In the poems “The Rose That Grew From Concrete” by Tupac Shakur and “Fire and Ice” by Robert Frost, both sides are shown to the reader. In “ The Rose That Grew From Concrete” Tupac writes about a rose that grew in concrete when nobody believed it could, and this shows that people should always believe in themselves and not to listen to the people saying they can't do something. In the poem “Fire and Ice” Frost says that the world is going to end because of all the hate. These poems can be compared and contrasted because they show some similar themes, as well as they both talk about hate, humanity, and have differences in the mood in which the poem is written.

In the novel, The Lord of the Flies by William Golding, symbolism is a critical part of the novel because it provides an in depth meaning to the situation. Golding used symbolism to show how humans react when taken out of civilization. The conch, the glasses, and the fire provided a better understanding of the novel and the complexity of surviving. When the boys were lost on the island, the objects used provided survival and symbolized concepts that helped the reader had better understand the theme of civilization and savagery.

The Lord of the Flies by William Golding is an incredible adventure story that goes back to the savagery of man and our defects of human nature. The boys stuck on the island go through many changes on their time on the island. The fire, in Lord of the Flies symbolizes survival, rescue, and safety.

The novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding is a novel about several boys who are stranded on an island trying to create a functioning society. On this island the boys have to build their own houses, hunt for their food, and have to make some form of government. The perfect society the boys wanted ended up falling apart and changes everyone’s behavior. The boys end up turning against each other and starts a civil war. Symbolism plays an important part in the development of the story. In this novel symbolism was given to an object with some form of meaning and sometimes a character was symbolized. Some of these objects in the novel included the conch shell, Piggy’s glasses, and fire. Also as the story progresses the meanings of some objects change symbolically.

The next two lines, “Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, / But bears it out even to the edge of doom” is an allusion to love standing its ground even in the wake of Doomsday. This quatrain effectively illustrates love as a thing that endures all hardship; reinforcing the extended metaphor of the previous quatrain.

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.