CBSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE & LITERATURE

Detailed explanation-1: -Antithesis – Fire is the antithesis of ice. Two contrasting and directly opposite destructive forces have been the hallmark of this poem; Fire and Ice’.

Detailed explanation-2: -Personification: Personification is to give human qualities to inanimate objects. In this poem, “Fire” and “Ice” are capable of destruction. Therefore, the poet personifies fire and ice by giving them a mind which is capable of destroying almost anything.

Detailed explanation-3: -Figures of Speech in Fire and Ice The poem functions through these binary opposites of love and hate. Even the ideas are oxymoron in their natures. If love represents thesis, hate is its anti-thesis, similar is the case with fire and ice.

Detailed explanation-4: -The metaphor, the end of the world, has two contrasting components, fire and ice. Each of these, in turn, represents desire and hate. Then the contrast between the concrete, inner emotions and the theoretical, cosmic forces represents knowledge of the universe as achievable through knowledge of the human soul.

Detailed explanation-5: -The poem “Fire and Ice” by Robert Frost is a metaphor for human perceptions of desires and hatred. The fire symbolises burning desires, while the ice, on the other hand, describes ice-cold hatred. It describes how we humans will be the end of our own race.