This document provides an analysis of the poem "Fire and Ice" by Robert Frost. It discusses how the poem deals with the theme of the destruction of the universe. The poem contrasts fire and ice, representing human desire and hatred respectively, both of which are seen as having the power to destroy the world. The analysis explores the metaphorical meanings of fire and ice in the context of the poem and compares the ideas in the poem to some mythological concepts from Indian and Christian traditions regarding the end of the world.

1. Fire and Ice
Name : Mansi Parmar
Roll No : 16
M A , Sem 3
Paper No : 10 , The American Literature
Email Id : mansibaparmar212@gmail.com
Submitted To : Department of English
Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji
Bhavnagar University

2. Introduction
 Robert Lee Frost was
born in 1874 .
 He was an American poet.
 His work was initially
published in England before
it was published in America.
 His work frequently
employed setting from rural
life in new England in the
early twentieth century .

3. Conti....
 The central themes of his poems are…
 Men
 Woman
 Humanity
 loneliness
 Isolation and
 Nature
 He was died in 1963 .

4. Characteristic of his poems

5. Design Mending wall
fire and Ice
Stopping by woods on
a snowy Evening
Gift outright
Poems of Robert Frost

6. Fire and Ice

7. “Fire and Ice”
 Very short but remarkable poem .
 published in 1920 .
 Deal with the theme of the destroyed of universe .
 Fire and Ice both are opposite to each other .

8. Conti...
 One is Hit and second is Cold .
 Here these two words have two different meaning

9. Conti…
 Indian Mythology
 Christian Mythology
 Indian Mythology : It describe how world was
destroyed because of flood .
 King Manu saved by Flood with the help of lord
Vishnu .
 The Christian myth of the west mentions that the
world would be destroyed of fire .

10. Conti…
 "Some say the world will end
in fire, some say in ice."

11. Conti…
 Here poet uses the word “Fire” as a symbol to signify
human desire and wants to convey that human desire are
just like Flans of fire and there is no end to human desire .
 The poet than says that Ice is also equally capable of
destroying the world . The poet associate Ice with cold
blooded hatred which modern man has for a follow
human being the days of physical war are gone now it is
replaced with cold blooded haltered with which people
are destroyed mentally .

12. Conti…
 In Many western ideas like that the end of the earth is
ice, in so many films in see that end of the earth is ice,
and huge water has to kills so many people. In film
“2012” filmmaker gives ideas of that and also gives one
date at the end of the earth is gets in water.

13. Conclusion
Two aspects
 First is human nature is burning desire and
 Second is cold hatred
And in the last poet say that not one but both are
having capable to destroyed this world .