CBSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE & LITERATURE

Detailed explanation-1: -The poet says that the rude and cruel thinking of today’s people and their behavior towards each other is no more kind and generous. The poet compares the feelings of anger, greed, cruel, rude, annoying and selfish etc with the fire & says that the world will end due to the extreme hot burning of the fire.

Detailed explanation-2: -The poet is familiar with the fire of passions and desires in love. He knows it quite well that are uncontrolled desires, passions and fury lead to our destruction. Similarly, he sides with those people who believe that ‘fire’ symbolised by unbridled passions and desires with be the real cause of the end of the world.

Detailed explanation-3: -Answer: Our desires and hatred would be enough to destroy the world. According to the poet, ‘fire’ represents ‘desire’ and ‘ice’ represents ‘hatred’.

Detailed explanation-4: -Here, the poet equates fire with desire and ice with hatred. Our human desires spread rapidly like FIRE and engulf one’s whole life. This in turn affects the people around us and thereby, destroys the world.

Detailed explanation-5: -According to the poet, the world will end due to the ‘fire’, which symbolises desire. But if the world had to end twice then it will be due to the hatred symbolised by ‘ice’. The poet feels that there is enough hatred in the world that is spreading among the people. This hatred will end the world one day.