CLASS 10
FIRE AND ICE
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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abaa
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abba
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baab
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aabb
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Detailed explanation-1: -The lines are taken from one of Frost’s early poems, Fire and Ice where the poet considers the age-old question of whether the world will end in fire or in ice. This is similar to another age-old question: whether it would be preferable to freeze to death or burn to death.
Detailed explanation-2: -(E) The rhyming scheming of this stanza is ababa.
Detailed explanation-3: -The poet in ‘Fire and Ice’ confesses that he has ‘tasted of desire’ which means he has experienced desire and its effects. He has had many worldly desires which he compares to fire and then admits that they have a destructive quality.
Detailed explanation-4: -The poem is a work of eschatology-writing about the end of the world-and poses two possible causes for this end: fire and ice. The speaker uses these natural elements as symbols for desire and hatred, respectively, arguing that both emotions left unchecked have the capacity to destroy civilization itself.