ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -"Fire and Ice” is a popular poem by Robert Frost that discusses the end of the world, likening the elemental force of fire with the emotion of desire, and ice with hate.

Detailed explanation-2: -Fire and Ice by Robert Frost. Poetry Foundation.

Detailed explanation-3: -"Fire and Ice” is a popular poem by American poet Robert Frost (1874-1963). It was written and published in 1920, shortly after WWI, and weighs up the probability of two differing apocalyptic scenarios represented by the elements of the poem’s title.

Detailed explanation-4: -Summary of Fire and Ice Poem He says that some people believe that the world will be wiped out by fire and others support that the world will end in ice. Either way, the world is sure to end, but the poet does not provide a definite answer whether it will end by fire or ice.

Detailed explanation-5: -Fire and Ice is a nine-line single stanza rhyming poem with a strong metrical base of iambic tetrameter and dimeter. The rhyme scheme is: aba abc bcb with ice repeated twice and also contained within twice/suffice.