CBSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE & LITERATURE

Detailed explanation-1: -Cool and calculated icy reasoning can lead to hate and can be the cause of the end of this world. The poet himself has experienced both these primal emotions of love as well as hate, fire as well as ice, passions as well as cold reason. He has experienced enough of hate which is born out of icy cold reasoning.

Detailed explanation-2: -In this poem, the poet tells us that the world would end in two distinct ways. Frost makes use of the elements of fire and ice to depict two common human emotions, hatred, and desire. He says that hatred and desire are two emotions, which, if not controlled, would lead to the end of the world.

Detailed explanation-3: -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.

Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -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.