In Robert Frost’s poem, “Fire and Ice,” he uses the imagery of fire and ice as ways to kill a human being and the end of the world. In the first two lines, “Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice.” From this, one can interpret this line as Robert Frost’s opinion on how the world would end. In the Bible, the world is supposed to be consumed in an inferno when the prophecy of the s

These lines in the second stanza are saying that one should not give up; fight, complain, and rail against the oncoming of death. Thomas is telling his father that despite the fact that death is the final end for everyone, do not give up easily. Even though he won’t finish every goal that he set, “Do not go gentle into that good night.”(Line 6) In stanza 3 and 4, Thomas says it doesn’t matter if someone has done nothing or how “their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,”(Line 8) or “Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight.”(Line 10) Either way, death is going to claim everyone and they should all fight death to the end. Even “Grave men, near death who see with blinding sight/Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay/Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”(Lines 13-15) If one fights death even when blind, one could see flashes of his/her life’s happiness. Which means that when you fight off death, the flashes of one’s life happiest moments will help them “see” what they are fighting for.

The next couple of lines show the buzz saw taking a life of its own, attacking the worker’s hand. The worker’s initial response is not to cry out in pain, but a rueful laugh. “The boy’s first outcry was rueful laugh.”(Line 19) “Then the boy saw all—/Since he was old enough to know, big boy.”(Line 22-23) The boy is expected to act older than he actually is. He’s expected to have the same amount of life knowledge that a working man is suppose to have. However, it is evident throughout the poem that he is nothing more than a boy. Even though he lacks sufficient life knowledge, he knows enough to accept the fact that death just around the corner for him. This image of a boy accepting the work responsibilities of an adult are further made concrete when Frost says, “Doing a man’s work, through a child’s heart…”(Line 24)

econd coming of Christ is fulfilled. Frost would later relate fire with the human emotion; desire. This comparison hints that Frost views desire as a fire that consumes and destroys. “I think I know enough of hate/to say that for destruction ice is also great,”(Line 6-7) When Frost says the world will end in ice, one possible explanation for could be tied to the first Great War. Eur

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