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1. CBSE-NCERT BOOK- FIRST FLIGHT
POETRY : CLASS -X
“Fire and Ice”
-Robert Frost
MUSHIKA RAJU
PGT ENGLISH

2. A Study of Poem
Structural Study
• Poet and speaker
• Who is the narrator /speaker?
• Participant or non-participant narrator
• What kind of narration? (1st, 2nd, or 3rd)
• Voice of the speaker
• Tone of the speaker
• Mode of the speaker
• Place and time of the poem (social,
political, economic setting)
• Subjective or objective poem
• To whom is it addressing?
• Meter: Rhyme scheme, Rhythm,
• Figures of speech (techniques of
language)
Thematic study
• Subject Matter :
• The end of the world, likening the
elemental force of fire with the
emotion of desire, and ice With hate.

3. Poet: Robert Frost (1874 – 963)
• He was a famous American poet.
• Known for his realistic depictions of rural life
in New England in the early twentieth century.
• His poetical works A Boy’s Will, North of
Boston, New Hampshire, A Further Range
Steeple Bush and In the Clearing increased his
fame and honour.
• The poem “Fire and Ice” was published in
New Hampshire (1923). This collection gave
him the Pulitzer Prize.

4. What made him to write?
• According to one of Frost's biographers, "Fire and Ice" was inspired by a
passage in Canto 32 of Dante's Inferno, in which the worst offenders
of hell (the traitors, దేశద్ర
ో హులు) are submerged up to their necks in ice while
in a fiery hell: "a lake so bound with ice, / It did not look like water, but
like a glass...right clear / I saw, where sinners are preserved (భద్రపరచబడింది)in
ice.”
• Harlow Shapley (prominent astronomer ), in an anecdote, recounted in
1960 in a "Science and the Arts" presentation.
• Shapley responded that either the sun will explode and incinerate the Earth.
• Or the Earth will somehow escape this fate only to end up slowly freezing
in deep space.
• Shapley was surprised at seeing "Fire and Ice" in print a year later, and
referred to it as an example of how science can influence the creation of
art, or clarify its meaning.

5. Robert Frost’s “Fire and Ice”
Some say the world will end in fire /ˈfʌɪə/ a
Some say in ice. /ʌɪs/ b
From what I’ve tasted of desire /dɪˈzʌɪə/ a
I hold with those who favor fire. /ˈfʌɪə/ a
But if it had to perish twice, /twʌɪs/ b
I think I know enough of hate /heɪt/ c
To say that for destruction ice /ʌɪs/ b
Is also great /ɡreɪt/ c
And would suffice. /səˈfʌɪs/ b