Fire And Ice Robert Frost Analysis

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.

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

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.

why he stopped, may be he doesn’t know himself. May be, he is comparing the beauty of nature to something, but on a symbolic level, the snow strongly reminds me that the poem is set in winter, and which is also widely represented as the image of death.

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.

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.

Robert Frost writes his poems with a connection to nature. Frost though grew up in an urban setting. Though in the video “A Conversation with Robert Frost”, Frost stated that of the jobs he had growing up farming impacted him the most. Farming might have jump started his fascination with nature at a young age. By being raised in such an urban setting and not being as in touch with nature, Frost gained a fascination for it. Frost’s attitude towards nature is that of wonder and appreciation. In frost’s poem “The Tuft of Flowers” it shows the theme of nature, such as “But he turned first, and led my eye to look / At a tall tuft of flowers beside a brook,” (21-22). In his poems, it is often mentioned the relationship between nature and man. This

The first lines: “Some say the world will end in fire/Some in Ice” (1-2). On a literal level, “the world” means the earth, it is not a metaphor for anything in a literal sense. Therefore the meaning of the earth will end is geological. The cause will be natural. Therefore when “fire” ends the world, it metaphorically represents the world overheating through global warming. When “ice” is the cause, it represents the world freezing over in an ice age. However, Robert Frost adds a twist to the scientific outlook by adding in informal personal pronouns and by giving examples of both fire and ice. He transforms the metaphors into symbolic

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

     A very interesting point regarding Frost’s relationship with nature is that he views it with ambiguity. Most assume that Frost is a nature lover; however, while this is true in part, Frost also views nature as having the capability of being destructive. Lynen speaks of this duality by saying, “You cannot have one without the other: love of natural beauty and horror at the remoteness and indifference of the physical world are not opposites but different aspects of the same view” (7). On speaking of Frost’s dualistic view of nature, Phillip L. Gerber states, “For nature is hard as she is soft, she can destroy and thwart, disappoint, frustrate, and batter” (132). Robert Frost views nature as an ‘alien force capable of destroying man’, but on the flip side, he also views “man’s struggle with nature as a heroic battle” (quoted in Thompson).

In lines three and four Frost says, “From what I’ve tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire.” This shows that at some point in his lifetime, Frost had such a positive experience when encountering desire that he agreed with the people who thought the universe would end by fire. This shows that love is Frost’s internal fire and that he wants the world to end in compassion and amity. Frost then declares in lines five through nine, “But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate to say that for destruction ice is also great and would suffice.” In contrast to his earlier belief that the world would end in ice, Frost says that if the world had to die twice, he would not mind if it ended in ice. Frost is revealing to us that ice represents hate and is equally as powerful and destructive as hate. Now that is a scary

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.

"Fire and Ice" is a poem about how the world will end. Frost is debating with himself as to whether or not the world will be destroyed by fire or ice.

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

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.