CLASS 10
FIRE AND ICE
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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It symbolizes winter season
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It symbolizes people
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it symbolizes hatred
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It symbolizes nothing
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Detailed explanation-1: -According to the poet, fire represents human desires and ice represents the hatred among humans. Desires are fiery like fire and can cause destruction by burning. Ice is on the opposite end of the spectrum to fire and is cold. Hatred too is cold like ice and can consume us if not controlled.
Detailed explanation-2: -’Ice’ stands for cruelty, intolerance, rigidity, insensitivity, coldness, indifference and hatred..
Detailed explanation-3: -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.
Detailed explanation-4: -It is a symbol of rigidity, frigidity, the waters of the earth as opposed to the fresh and living WATER of the fountain of Paradise. It is coldness, absence of love, difficult and unexplored territory not conducive to human life and life in general.
Detailed explanation-5: -’Ice’ stands for cruelty, intolerance, rigidity, insensitivity, coldness, indifference, and hatred. Q.