What is the tone and mood of the poem Fire and Ice by Robert Frost?

Question

I need to know please.

Answer 1

You certainly do need to know. It's an amazing poem. Read it with careful attention and the tone and mood will be immediately clear. It's not hard, just good.

Answer 2

One of my favorite's by Frost.

He seems indecisive in it. First he says fire, because a persons passions can be his own demise. Love can destroy. But then again, ice, to be aloof and disconnected from things can be just as destructive. Hate can consume and turn a heart cold. Also, literally, he's really debating how the world will be destroyed, burning or freezing.

The ends the end, whether it be by ice or fire.

The poem itself doesn't really mince words. That's what I love about this poem, it just flows. He takes this question and weighs the destructiveness of fire against ice and which is greater. He never answers this question as Frost usually never does in his poetry, like in his poem "The Road Not Taken", he leaves it rather ambiguous. In the end it doesn't matter because either way, you die and both ways hurt.

His tone is kind of detached, and also if not a little humorous, as if he's mocking the debate on the world's end. This is an age old question of how it all will end. Will it be fire or ice, will I burn to death or freeze to death? He's got this tone of who cares which way, you can almost hear him saying between the lines"I can't believe we're fighting about this!". The end is the end. And he has a point.

Answer 3

Fire And Ice Tone

Answer 4

Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.

-- Robert Frost

This analysis by Chris may help you:

In his poem “Fire and Ice” Robert frost compares and contrasts the two destructive forces: fire and ice. In the first two lines of the poem he presents two options for the end of the world: an end by fire or by ice. He takes the position of fire in the next two lines and relates fire to desire. This comparison suggests that Frost views desire as something that consumes and destroys. Desire does indeed have a way of consuming those it infects. However, in the next stanza Frost makes the case for the destructive force of ice. He compares ice to hate. This comparison relates to the reader a view of hate as something that causes people to be rigid, unmoving and cold. Also, ice has a tendency to encompass things and cause them to crack and break. The last line of Frost’s poem asserts that the two destructive forces are equally great. Fire, or passion, consumes and destroys quickly, leaving ashes in its wake. Ice, or hatred, destroys more slowly. It causes object to become so immovable that they crack from the pressure created, leaving split fragments that once were whole. From the views frost states in this poem it would be fair to extrapolate that he believes the world will end in violent war for coveted things. However, Frost also could conceive of an end of the world caused by people becoming too rigid, unmoving and set in their ways and ideas that the world breaks apart into factions. Perhaps the destructive force of ice described in the poem was at work in the “cold” war. The Soviet block was set in its belief in communism, and the NATO countries were firmly convinced of the virtues of capitalism and individuality. Cracks formed, creating fragments of a former whole, Europe. Fire was at work in early wars in which nations desired more money and territory. It may be fitting then that Frost said the second destruction would be brought about by ice. Fire destroyed Europe in the World Wars, but was rebuilt and then destroyed by ice. Care must be taken, evidently, to keep the world at room temperature.


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Answer 5

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