NAME : 1.

HANDRIA FEBRI AMELIA ( 19320221 )

2. A Faisal Muchsinin ( 19320180 )

CLASS: D

Basic Analysis of English Poetry Group’s Assignment

Fire and Ice

Robert Frost - 1874-1963

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.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To know that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.

( Source : https://poets.org/poem/fire-and-ice )

The thing that interest me to the poem was when the writer conveyed
the meaning in the sentence "Some say the world will end in fire". This
poem makes me interested because it invites broad thoughts and implements
the message behind it.
This poem makes me interested because it invites broad thoughts and
implements the message behind it. This poem reveals the end of the world.
"Fire and Ice" is a metaphor to describe the desires and hatreds that can lead
to the destruction of the world. The fire metaphor to describe desire as the
cause of the end can be explained as follows. The nature of fire burns. He will
burn whatever he passes, then all that is left is dust. This trait is similar to that
of desire. That desire will burn anything, it needs channeling. If a person is too
ambitious to fulfill all his wishes then he will brave anything like a fire
crashing through whatever he passes. The desire is endless, every time a wish
is achieved, other desires will arise and it will continue to be like that.
The rhyme scheme plays an important role in the poetic expression.
The poem "Fire and Ice" is built on an unusual interweaving of the pattern:
three rhymes and two line lengths in a nine-line poem. Each line ends with a
rhyme that rhymes with ‘-ire, -ice, or –ate.' Dante employs a similar pattern in
his Inferno. The lines are either four or eight syllables in length. The poem is
largely composed in iambic pentameter. In line 7, the poet uses enjambment
to provide the impression of haste in reaching the point of culmination. The
poem is composed in a single 9-line stanza, with the final two lines condensing
the poem. The iambic rhythm is an irregular mix of iambic tetrameter and
iambic dimeter, and the rhyming scheme is punctuated in ‘ABA ABC BCB,'
which both suggests and departs from the commonly used pattern of ‘terza
rima,' which is an arrangement of triplets, particularly in iambic pentameter,
that rhymes ABA BCB CDC.
There is no rhyme or rhythm in this nine-line poem. This style of poem
is known as free verse poetry. This poem has eight and four syllables or
syllables in each line.