Robert Frost Fire and Ice - short lecture

[rowdykartel]

Thank you i enjoyed your short lecture,as i do not have many people close to me interested in such a discussion. lol thank you for allowing my video response and your comment.

[nu5rave5runt]

The Fire stands for passion and people acting towards each other - being very agressive. Ice means people being hostile to each other, also cold to others feelings, kind of not caring at all. What Robert Frost meant to say was that a lot of people suppose the agressive behaviour will be the end (wars, etc.) but it actually only takes people not giving a damn about each other.

[juslikejesus]

I don't think he's talking about that stuff, I can't agree with you.

[Yirumagirl]

Wow, thank you for that! I have to dissect a poem for my creative writing class and this just helped, like, a lot more. Thank you!!!!!!!

[klifesahighwa]

I love this poem so much! I read and heard it in the book and movie eclipse and I memorized it and it's so awesome :) ( team Jacob 4ever) lol

[ebaymotion]

This guy looks like he would have a British accent.

[jullietwillrise]

he's talking about intensity combining both thing... :) i love this poem

[laralu1019]

a wonderful analysis! thanks for the interpretation :)

[Zuneowner]

Thank you for this short lecture on Robert Frost Fire and Ice . It has helped a ton

[LalaLola161]

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[xanfus]

with him and you all, i don't feel so alone. thanks you guys. its the darkest evening of the year

[loler4eva]

@xanfus xD u got that from stopping by woods from a snowy evening, right xD nice haha

[marcuslaughton]

i believe he was using fire and ice as metaphors for desire and indifference , both very destructive emotions.each have the capacity to destroy the world . his preference is for fire, but in the final analysis ice will do, after all when it all ends, does it matter by which means?

[BogusDudeGW]

i fail to see how Ice could cause the end of the world unless he actually meant mankind. Neither an ice age, nuclear, volcanic and astoroid is likely to result in the end of the world. Mankind may die but the planet would recover, maybe even life of some kind would find a way back. Fire on the otherhand, via the sun going supernova is a possibility, but more than likely long after mankind has gone extinct anyway.

Desire/Hate is there a difference? Hand in hand!

[sophiabellos]

This is not about the end of the world. Its about how you should live your life. Live it full of passion and energy.

[Zuneowner]

@sophiabellos ????

[bikerchickfrommars]

Fire is feeling, alive, dynamic, passion. Ice is cold, death, a void or absence of warmth received from humanity

[janeyeatworld]

You're probably right. It's quite interesting to speculate as to what will cause the end of the world. I think you're missing the metaphor though. It could be talking about passion and indifference and their destructive qualities. The ending of the world could merely be his own world, or a particular persons simply. It's more about an internal destruction--not really supernovas and ice-ages.

[ColeVanSanten69]

@janeyeatworld i agree with u i just did a porject on this poem and i said i think there is an extended metaphor and its not actually meaning the end of man kind but the end of a single persons life.

[Zokeseh]

I really enjoyed this video. Robert Frost was such a talented poet and Fire and Ice is one of my favorite poems.

[ProJanitor]

Poems rules!

[prrrrecious]

God this poem is beautiful and yet so simple! Frost was profound.

[dearbornjessica]

Robert Frost plainly states in the poem fire is desire and ice is hate. When you take a closer look I believe that anyone with a brain can see it is his own personal preference to desire that he is talking about but if he had to do it a second time hate would suffice. It's actually quite literal...

[melvync1227]

i still dont really get the poem.. :(

i dont understand the symbolic meaning for ice. and why is it sufficient enough rather than fire..

(sorry if you dont get what im trying to say)

english/literature has always been my worst subject mainly because of poems..

[nemo3590]

The poem says that fire (passion) is more likely to destroy the world, but hatred/indifference (ice) would do just as well if the world could be destroyed a second time.

The poem is about personal human failures and relationships that could result in the downfall of the human race.

[lauriehaven]

beautiful , great comments

[lauriehaven]

beautiful comments

[jamesclay4]

thanks makes my english A2 exam today alot easier.

P.S. atom/nuclear bombs were not around in 1923 so it cant be that at all.

[stacyhm]

Thanks for your remark.

No, you're right, of course atomic bombs were not contemplated until the late 1930's.

However the idea of the world ending through a great and fiery war was very common in this age of the Wasteland following the Great War.

Note Eliot's image on post-war Europe from 1925 This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper.

[MooseheadDrinker]

Touche. You, mr. lecturer, have just been discredited.

[jamesclay4]

I managed to get a 78% Grade B in my A2 English 2.5 hour exam and abit of that grade goes to this video. Thanks alot

[conkeydonkey]

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[KaysinKacei]

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thanks!

[CircleInTheFire]

This dude is the best. Long live.

[19730952]

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[19730952]

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