Analysis:
Fire and Ice Is a very short but remarkable poem of Robert
frost published in 1920. In which the poet’s philosophical temperament is to be
found. The present short poem deals with the theme of the destruction of
universe but while dealing with this theme the poet comes before us as a
profound philosopher.
Some say the world will end in
fire,
Some say
in Ice.
This is the very opening
line of the poem. It prepares a meeting point for the Indian mythology and
Christian mythology of the west. Some people are of the opinion that the world
would be destroyed because of ‘Fire’ and
some other believes that the world would be destroyed because of water or ‘Ice’.
The poet
Frost in the opening of the poem refers to these two myths and he believes that
the world would be destroyed because of fire. The poet here uses the word fire
as a symbol to signify endless human desire. The poet wants’ to convey that
human desires are just like flames of fire and there is no end to human
desires. So, the poet has opinion that the world would be destroyed because of
the fire of human desire. Because human desire is a major drying force which
compels a person to go any extent form for fulfillment of those desires.
The poet
then say’s the Ice is also equally capable of destroying the world. The poet
compare ice with cold blooded hatred which modern man has for a fallow human
being. The days of physical war are gone now it is replaced with cold blooded
hatred with which people are destroyed mentally. So the poet say’s that Ice is
also capable of destroying the world.
The present
poem has a philosophical not in it as comment’s on human nature. The First
aspect of human nature is burning
desires and the second aspect of cold
hatred. Both are having the capacity of destroyed the world. This truth of
this modern world is highlighted in this poem.
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