1/26/2024 0 Comments Of fire and ice![]() This poem describes the similarities between fire and desire, and between ice and hate. Him and nearly fell of my chair because I've never found one person who knewĪnyway thank heaven I found out the author and I'll always love it. Quoted for a new series, which at this moment I can't even remember what theīut the minute the actor said "Some say the world," I quoted the rest with Just recently I was watching TV and the very first part of the poem was But to me it's pure human nature, it says I've quoted it to people over the years and most people just kind of make aįace as if it's a morbid thought. I graduated in 1963 and have never forgotten this poem. I have always loved it, but could not remember the author. Is revealed when Frost unifies two opposites into a coherent form to makeįrom: ago while in high school, my literature book had a page with this poem Individual, and the metaphors of fire and ice fit. Both of these extremes destroy the soul of humanity and the Both emotions areĮxtremes of love, not merely spiritual love, but the love of humans, of Frost presents us with contradictory images. Of fire, and hate, born out of ice, a coldness and lack of feeling orĬaring. I would like to submit another interpretation of Robert Frost's poem, "FireĪnd Ice." Just as fire and ice are opposites, so is desire, or lust, born The last of these has a biography and lots of critical notes. ![]() Poem #155, "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" ![]() Poem #170, "The Need of Being Versed in Country Things" Ice may one day destroy the external, physical world, desire and hateĭestroy the internal, spiritual one. The metaphor is apt, and powerful: just as fire and Into a telling insight into the destructive power of desire and hate, fireĪnd ice respectively. Here, he takesĪn idle daydream, a whimsical (albeit slightly dark) musing, and converts it Gary Geddes, "20th Century Poetry and Poetics" (Oxford, 1996).įrost is a master at making simple words say profound things. Skillfully constructed poems testify to his mastery over that confusion. Man, who sought in his poems 'a momentary stay against confusion' and his The wisdom of Frost's poetry, the notion that he was merely the singer of aīenevolent nature is no longer accepted. Although few of his early readers ever went beyond the delight to Possess levels of meaning that are dark and profound - like subtle literary Immediately accessible as "Stopping by Woods", "Mending Wall" and "Birches" ![]() Thoughts obliquely, through the use of simple bucolic incidents. To arrive at certain basic truths about life, he explores feelings and Initially, few readers progressed in their appreciation beyond theĭeceptively simple surfaces of his poems. Your comments on this poem to attach to the end Fire and Ice - Robert Frost Fire and Ice Title : ![]()
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