Question

Dicuss the theme of the poem 'fire and ice'

Answer 1

Answer:

The theme of the poem is the age-old question. The question is whether the world will end in fire or in ice. The poet decides that any of the two options would achieve its purpose sufficiently well. The poet shares the common belief that everything that exists will have its end too

Answer 2

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In this nine-line poem, Frost's speaker states his opinion that the world will end because of human emotion, not natural disaster. The two emotions that are in contention to destroy the earth are desire (which could also be understood as greed) and hate.

Frost's speaker putshis money on desire, which he likens to a fire, as what will bring on the earth's demise, saying:

I hold with those who favor fire.

However, his speaker does not discount hate, which he aligns with ice, stating:

But if it had to perish twice,

I think I know enough of hate

To say that for destruction ice

Is also great

There is a Biblical quality to these two destructive vices. What comes to mind first is the Biblical book of James in the New Testament, in which James asks the Christians at the beginning of chapter 4: