NCERT Solutions Class 10 English (First Flight)
The NCERT Solutions in English Language for Class 10 English (First Flight) Poem – 2 Fire and Ice has been provided here to help the students in solving the questions from this exercise.
Poem – 2 (Fire and Ice)
Some say the world will end in fire
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favour 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
Thinking about the Poem
1. There are many ideas about how the world will ‘end’. Do you think the world will end some day? Have you ever thought what would happen if the Sun gets so hot that it ‘bursts’ or grows colder and colder?
Answer – Yes I believe that this world will end some but when nobody knows. Whether the sun gets hot or it gets colder in both the situations end of this world is sure.
2. For Frost, what do ‘fire’ and ‘ice’ stand for? Here are some ideas
| greed, avarice, cruelty, lust, conflict, fury, intolerance, rigidity, insensitivity, coldness, indifference, hatred |
Answer –
Fire : stands for greed, avarice, lust, conflict and fury.
Ice : stands for cruelty, intolerance, rigidity, insensitivity, coldness, indifference and hatred.
3. What is the rhyme scheme of the poem? How does it help in bringing out the contrasting ideas in the poem?
Answer – The rhyme scheme of the poem is- a, b, a, a, b, c, b, c, b
It helps in bringing out the contrasting ideas by separating them. Different ideas symbolise ‘fire’ and ‘ice’. They are given different rhyme scheme in both the stanzas.
