Literature Assignment: Analyzing Robert Frost's 'Fire and Ice'

This document provides a detailed analysis of Robert Frost's poem "Fire and Ice." The analysis delves into the poem's central themes, which include the destructive forces of desire (fire) and hate (ice), as well as the potential end of the world. The author explores the poem's structure, meter, and the figurative language used to convey its meaning. The assignment also includes an annotated bibliography of two sources from peer-reviewed academic journals, which are used to support the analysis of the poem and the poet's intentions. The paper examines the importance of the poem and its relevance to human emotions and experiences. The analysis further explores the interpretations of the poem and the use of figurative language, such as the use of fire and ice as symbols of human emotions. The document also includes the effects of destruction and the different interpretations of the end of the world by different people. The annotated bibliography provides additional context and critical perspectives on the poem.

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Analysis of the poem Robert frost (1874-1963) Fire And Ice.
The poem ‘’Fire And Ice “ has key meaning which is entirely the end of the world whereby it has
used fire which indicates the emotion of desire and the use of ice which indicates hate that is
found in different people (Wulandari, 34).I have used this poem because it’s one of the most
well-known and anthologized poems .The poem is well structured whereby it is in nine line
stanza which arrows in the last two lines .In addition, the overall meter illustrated by the poem is
majorly the mix of the iambic tetrameter and diameter.
The poem introduces the fate of the world. The author is wondering on how the world can be
destroyed by the fire and ice. The people in the world are in debate that the end is nigh. The
narrator of this poem indicates how fire will signify the end. The end is analyzed through the
human desire and hate which are common virtues in the world (Wulandari, 63). Also, the
narrator also considers how ice would be equally destructive at the end. Robert is not clear on
what will cause the end of the world but he significantly indicates that the end will constitute the
options of fire and ice.

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Robert has used a lot of sense which we get from different people on how they react to different
issues. The importance is all about effects of destruction .The fire is the desire which in real
sense it is the passion people have .The ice on other hand summarizes the hate which is reason.
Therefore, through the use of this figurative language the poem indicates that those who moves
away from the positive life by justifying through fake reasons then they are termed as the worst
offenders in the poem. Through this they end up in a lake of ice. The other issue which is of
importance is the way the end of the world is interpreted by different people in the world.
Everyone knows that the world will end but no one is sure how it will end. Both fire and ice are
linked to the idea of human domain whereby desire has been linked with the fire and hate linked
with ice. Both desire and hate are believed as the causes of world’s demise (Roberts, Robert,
Darlene, 98).
Annotated Bibliography
Pambudi, Rudy Tri, and Maryadi. M. A. Figurative Language Used In Robert Frost’s Poems.
Diss. Universitas Muhammadiyah Surakarta, 2016.
In Pambudi and Maryadi (2016), the thesis focuses on imagery of death. The purpose of
this book is to analyses the intrinsic and extrinsic elements of death as related to our poem. The
source uses figurative language relevant to our poem describing the reactions people has to the
destruction of the death. In the whole study the authors uses two methods which tend to be
useful. These methods are library approach and the structural approach which are useful to the
topic explained by the poem (O’Brien, 41).The entire concept use by the two writers is all about
future destruction. Due to this the book can be used to analyze the poem in sense that it uses a lot
of figurative languages which are common to the poem. Based on this fact, the source can be

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used to analyze the effects of destructions which in the poem are revealed by the presence of fire
and ice.
Damanhuri, M. "Imagery and figurative language analysis on robert frost's poems to earthawrad
and wind and window flower." (2012).
The second source is the Damanhuri (2011).In his book Imagery and Figurative
Language Analysis on Robert Frosts Poems: To Earthward and Wind and Window Flower.
Damanhuri entirely focuses on the aspect of intrinsic element as used in the poem. He went on
and analyses the use of figurative and imagery language when interpreting the language used by
the Roberts in his work (Lombardo, 100).He uses the theory of imagery by analyzing different
structures of the poem. In the case of our poem that is fire and ice, Damanhuri has indicated the
issue of auditory imagery. He has indicated use of different techniques such as the Parallelism
which is revealed by the stanza saying, ‘some say the world will end in fire, some say in
ice,” .This shows the aspect of parallelism and through this analysis the author has assisted in
identifying use of figurative languages in our poem.

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Work cited
Lombardo, Nicholas E. The logic of desire: Aquinas on emotion. CUA Press, 2011.
O'Brien, Timothy D. "Prospects for the Study of Robert Frost." Resources for American Literary
Study (2014): 3-28.
Roberts, Edgar V., Robert Zweig, and Darlene Stock Stotler. "An Introduction to Reading and
Writing." (2012).
Wulandari, Agustin Evin. Figurative languages used In Robert Frost’s selected poems. Diss.
Universitas Negeri Islam Maulana Malik Ibrahim, 2015.