ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Using a simile, he says that his beloved is “like to ice"-presumably meaning that she’s cold, distant, and unwilling to “warm” to his love. By contrast, the speaker compares himself to “fire.” This suggests that the speaker is burning with desire for his beloved, consumed with lust and passion.

Detailed explanation-2: -simile ● Comparison between two unlike things using “like” or “as” ● “Do you ever feel like a plastic bag Drifting through the wind, wanting to start again?” Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I’ve tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire.

Detailed explanation-3: -What type of a poem is Fire and Ice? Fire and Ice is a short rhyming poem of nine lines with a rhyme scheme of ABA ABC BCB.

Detailed explanation-4: -“Sonnet 30” by Edmund Spenser dramatizes the conflict of a man’s burning desire to be with a woman who has no interest in him. Edmund Spenser uses the metaphorical comparisons of dramatically opposites, fire and ice. The man is fire, who is obsessed for this ice cold hearted woman, which returns nothing.

Detailed explanation-5: -It is a sonnet with 14 verses that are made up of three quatrains, and there is also a final couplet. The rhyme scheme depicted in the poem is ababbcbccdcdee. The poem’s vocabulary is rich and expressive. Following the habits of Spenser, the sonnet has an iambic pentameter composition or irregular meter composition.