CLASS 10
FIRE AND ICE
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Question
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They make us insensitive
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They make us frightful
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They make us cruel
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Both make us insensitive & cruel
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Detailed explanation-1: -According to Robert Frost, Hate born of cold reasoning makes a man an insensitive person. According to the poem “Fire and Ice"’, Hatred can destroy the whole world. Cold reasoning makes one insensitive and hard-hearted.
Detailed explanation-2: -Ans. (i) In this poem, Robert Frost refers to two contrasting ideas-Fire and Ice as predictions of how the world will end. According to him, some people say that the world will end in a fire while some others hold that this will end in ice. The poet equates desire with fire and hatred with ice.
Detailed explanation-3: -the poet finds the human desires same as fire in its nature. On the other hand, the second belief tells that ice is sufficient for destroying this world and the poet compares the nature of ice with hatred.
Detailed explanation-4: -What is the general opinion regarding the world ? Ans: Fire stands for fury, desire, lust, anger, avarice, cruelty and greed. Ice is symbolic of hatred, coldness, rigidity, insensitivity and intolerance. The general opinion regarding the world is that the world will end in fire and some say ice .
Detailed explanation-5: -The first view is that people shall be burnt in fire in the end of the world. Other View: The other view believes that people shall be done away with through the use of ice. Both Accounts: In both the accounts, the end of the world shall come with judgement of those who did wrong in the world.