thing, we're taking from our home and our resources. It’s evident that humans know what is going on at the moment, but what are we doing? We continue on with this behavior. But the question is, how are we trying to fix it? When are we going to try to fix it? If we are going to try to fix it, is it for their own selfish personal reasons or is it for the benefit of the greater good? Can we honestly call this place our home when all we do is take from it and we don’t give back home?
Home is a place where you feel comfortable and safe, but whose home is it really? It’s not our home because all we do is take from it and when you have a home you're supposed to add to it. We can't even help our fellow human beings, there are still impoverished people
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Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So, Eden sank to grief, so dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay, “by Robert Frost entitle Nothing Gold Can Stay. This poem was written in 1923 and was published in October of that year and the year review. This poem ended up earning Robert Frost the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1924. This is a poem that refers to Nature, it is referring to Nature and how a leaf during the spring is a golden color at first but then changes to a dark green color. But that’s not the end of the process of course the leaf then falls off the tree and it shows that nothing is forever. Nothing can stay especially not a leaf on the tree for it has to go through its own processes to fully …show more content…
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,” by Robert Frost, Fire and Ice. In this poem he is discussing things, and which have been discussed for a long period of time such as; Fire and Ice and how the world is going to end in either one of those two things. People suggest that the world is going to end in fire because a comet is going to hit the planet others believe that there is going to be another Ice Age and we will freeze to death. What John Frost is saying is that he wants to die the way of Fire but if he had to die twice he pick ice. Like Nothing Gold Can Stay, Fire and Ice is one of Robert Frost most renowned poems. In December of 1920, it was published in Harper’s magazine and 3 years later and 1923 he won another Pulitzer Prize for his poem. In this poem it is evident that he associates fire with desire and ice with
The poem states that everything eventually comes to an end and that not even gold can remain unchanged. The poem explains this theme with many metaphors about everything that’s coming to an end. Freeman explains that “Even the poem's rhymes contribute to this sense of inevitability: Nature's gold we (or She) cannot hold; the flower lasts only an hour; the post flower leaf is like Eden's grief; the coming of day means that dawn's gold cannot stay”(2). The poem explains that everything has a natural cycle and that nothing lasts forever. When the poem states “nothing can stay gold”, Frost looks back at the flower and the time of day and implies that it all comes to an end.
“Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words,” Robert Frost once said. As is made fairly obvious by this quote, Frost was an adroit thinker. It seems like he spent much of his life thinking about the little things. He often pondered the meaning and symbolism of things he found in nature. Many readers find Robert Frost’s poems to be straightforward, yet his work contains deeper layers of complexity beneath the surface. His poems are not what they seem to be at first glance. These deeper layers of complexity can be clearly seen in his poems “The Road Not Taken”, “Fire and Ice”, and “Birches”.
The poem Fire and Ice is nine line long and is an example of a briefly ironic literary style of Frosts work. Fire and Ice ranges between two meter lengths. The poem uses interwoven rhymes founded on “ire,” “ice,” and “ate.” Although the meter is irregular it does keep up an iambic foot throughout the poem. The first line of the poem is a tetrameter followed by a dimeter which is followed by five line of tetrameter, ending with two lines of dimeter. The division of the line lengths is to render natural interruptions in the poem causing the reader to stop and reread what they have just read in order to comprehend the meaning of the lines containing the dimeter. For example when the reader reads “ Some say in ice” they go back to the first line of the poem to reread the topic of what some are saying about the end of the world. The rhyme scheme of “Fire and Ice” is ABAABCBCB style. The words “fire” and “ice” are being rhymed with themselves. By using this scheme it means that the poem falls soundly and flows. By using the rhyme scheme Frosts creates a connection between the words. For example “fire” and “desire,” which make it clear that the words are related on a deeper level. As well the rhyming of “fire” and “ice” with themselves made it work to cre...
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Fire and Ice is a popular poem written in 1923 by Robert Frost. It is
Frost’s Allusion in the Nothing Gold Can Stay,supports the theme on nature and happiness by saying “So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day.Nothing gold can stay.”
Frost was known for writing poetry with an emphasis on nature. He used the changing of the seasons to symbolize events that were also occurring in the lives of the characters portrayed in his poems as well as to give a vivid depiction of the human condition. For instance, in “Nothing Gold Can Stay”, Frost opens the poem with a line about the shade of the leaves, but by the end of the poem it becomes evident that the gold in which he is describing has little to do with nature, but rather is a depiction of things valued in life and the frailty there of. Mordecai Marcus stated in his book The Poems of Robert Frost: an explication, “Frost's view resembles Emerson's idea that being born into this world is the fall implying that the suffering and decay brought by natural processes are what we know of evil… The "Nothing" of the last line, repeated from the title, receives special emphasis; the gold that cannot stay comes to represent all perfections” (Marcus) Using nature as a means to symbolize the cycle of human existence was a common thread in a large number of Frost’s poems.
.Even though 'Nothing Gold Can Stay' by Robert Frost is only eight lines long and seems simple, several readings of the poem can help show its deep meaning. This poem is a short poem about how people grow up. This poem reminds me of personal memories that I have had.
Frost uses a religious allusion to further enforce the objective of the poem. Whether Frost's argument is proven in a religious or scientific forum, it is nonetheless true. In directly citing these natural occurrences from inanimate, organic things such as plants, he also indirectly addresses the phenomena of aging in humans, in both physical and spiritual respects. Literally, this is a poem describing the seasons. Frosts interpretation of the seasons is original in the fact that it is not only autumn that causes him grief, but summer.
Paired together, fire and ice represent the many dualities found in the story. These dualities can be found in Victor Frankenstein’s contrasting moods as well as the inspiration and termination of his scientific drive. Finally, fire and ice unite in Walton’s suicidal dream of traveling to the north pole in search for a place where he believes “frost and snow are banished” (Shelley, 51). Above all, Shelley uses fire and ice to symbolize opposing aspects and expose the deeper meanings within Frankenstein.
The inevitability of death often implores humans to question the existence of an afterlife and for many, the end spurs angst; however, published in 1920, Frost pursues an explanation for the controversy of life after death in his poem Fire and Ice. In these years, akin to many, Frost seeks a connection to God and clarity in religion as Christianity still dominated mainstream ideals; his poems have been known to preach of an existing connection between the material and spiritual worlds as Frost states “‘It might be an expression of the hope I have that my offering of verse on the altar may be acceptable in His sight Whoever He is’” (Americamagazine.org). Subsequently, the Bible and Inferno forms a dualism that Frost wields to complete an impartial
He discusses the power of the elements and how two elements in particular would both suffice in the destruction of the earth. Frost uses the metaphors of “fire” and “ice” to convey his message; he proves that desire and hate are the two most powerful emotions capable of bringing life to an end. The power of ¨fire¨ is conveyed perfectly by Frost. In the piece
At this point in my search for meaning in Frost뭩 poem, I could understand only what it was talking about. However, I wished to understand what the message this poem is sending to the reader. The last lines of the poem, beginning with line five, which states 밄ut if it had to perish twice,?are key to this message. I believe Frost is simply trying to tell us that desire and hate are equally destructive.
“Fire and Ice” is a poem that paints a bleak picture of the future in which there are two paths, fire and ice, that both lead to the end of the world. Frost uses language throughout the poem that appears to be simple, but is actually very effective at communicating deeper, insightful meanings. He connects fire and ice to desire and hate and creates multiple levels of complexity. For example, the simple passage “Some say the world will end in fire, / Some say in ice.” (“Fire and Ice” 1-2) introduces the two main symbols in the poem, but, at the same time, pulls the reader in because desire and hate are so personal and such a significant part of human nature. After the symbols are presented, the narrator involves himself or herself in the poem by saying “From what I’ve tasted of desire / I hold with those who favor fire.” (“Fire and Ice” 3-4). A clear decision is made here in favor of fire, implying that the narrator favors desire. Frost believes that the world will eventually be destroyed by destructive and negative human traits: desire, greed, and jealousy. Yet in Frost’s mind, these traits are still preferable to hate. This opinion is demonstrated by the narrator’s choice of fire. Frost prefers the heat of passion and fire to the ...
Frost Robert "Fire and Ice." Twentieth-century Poetry and Poetics. 4th ed. Ed. Gary Geddes. Toronto: Oxford, 1996.