LORMA COLLEGES

COLLEGE OF EDUCATION AND SCIENCES

WORLD LITERATURE AND CIVILIZATION

Name: PALOMO, Crishara Bernice A. Program/Year/Sec: BSN IV

SCHOENHOFER

Essay: Do the following task.

1. Make a literary analysis of the poem entitled “Fire and Ice” by Robert
Frost based on the author, rhyme, scheme, theme, etc. Do not forget to
provide a poem-related reflection. (30 points)

Robert Frost was a poet from the United States. His work was first
published in England before being released in the United States. Frost, known
for his accurate descriptions of rural life and grasp of American vernacular
speech, regularly wrote about rural life in New England in the early twentieth
century, utilizing it to analyze complicated social and philosophical subjects.
Though Frost's work is mostly connected with New England life and landscape,
and though he was a poet of traditional poem forms and metrics who kept
stubbornly aloof from the poetic movements and fashions of his time, Frost is
far more than a regional poet. He is a thoroughly modern poet in his dedication
to language as it is actually spoken, the psychological complexity of his
depictions, and the degree to which his work is laced with layers of ambiguity
and irony.

Fire and Ice is a nine-line poem that gives Game of Thrones an oddly
apocalyptic connotation and is rumored to be the source of George Martin's
book, A Song of Ice and Fire. Fire symbolizes anger, conflict, and passion, on
the other hand, ice suggests indifference and passivity, among other things.
These imagery, which can be read in a variety of ways, give this classic short
poem an ambiguous and profoundly symbolic nature. In addition, 'Fire and Ice'
was written by Frost in the year 1920. Only two years have passed since the
end of World War I, and at this point, many people are worried about
revolution, the end of the world, and social and political mayhem.
 The poem’s rhyme scheme in the 1st stanza is ABAA, and followed by the
2nd stanza, which is ABABA. This rhyming scheme is used to convey the
concepts of "fire" and "ice," which are opposites. He says that ice and fire are
likely the last states of this world. In between discussing how desire, which is
represented by fire, can bring about the end of the world, he also makes
reference to ice as a symbol for how coldness and indifference to one another
will also be sufficient to bring about the end of the world. He claims in the
second verse that there is enough hatred in the world to ensure that the
demolition of the world through ice would be sufficient to end the world.

The poem asserts that, even if the world were to end twice, there would
be enough hatred to bring it about only once. And if something were to go
wrong, it would locate enough ice to finish it. The likelihood of the end of the
world appears likely in both scenarios. Robert Frost held the opinion that it
only took ice, desire, fire, or disdain to bring the world to an end. Moreover,
because of the destructive nature of human emotions, chaos can possibly
happen if desire and hatred is greatly in play. Eventually, without intervention,
this could lead to a catastrophic end of the world, along with humanity.