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Analysis of Robert Frosts Fire and Ice Essay examples -- Frost Fire a
Analysis of Robert Frost's Fire and Ice     For Robert Frost, poetry and life      were one and the same. In an interview he said, 'One thing I care about,      and wish young people could care about, is taking poetry as the first form      of understanding.' Each Robert Frost poem strikes a chord somewhere, each      poem bringing us closer to life with the compression of feeling and      emotion into so few words. This essay will focus on one particular poem,      the meaning of which has been much debated due to the quantity of words      used, or the lack there-of.             There have been many readers of Frost's poem "Fire and Ice", thus      being interpreted in many ways. Many readers would interpret the poem to      mean something about 'the physical end of the world, or the end of the      physical world' (1). Lawrence Thompson views the poem as hinting at the      destructive powers in "the heat of love or passion and the cold of hate,"      sensing that "these two extremes are made so to encompass life as to be a      gathering up of all that may exist between them; all that may be swept      away by them" (2).             Upon closer examination of "Fire and Ice", I found a distinct      parallel that closely mirrors the tale of Dante's Inferno. The Inferno is      the first part of Dante Alighieri's poem, the Divine Comedy, which      chronicles Dante's journey to God, and is made up of The Inferno (Hell),      Purgatorio (Purgatory), and Paradiso (Paradise). In The Inferno, Dante      begins his journey on the surface of the Earth, guided by the Ro... .... Much later, and in what I think is      'a veiled tribute to Robert Frost', John Ciardi translates these lines      as(2):      I come to lead you to the other shore,      into eternal dark, into fire and ice. (3.83-84)                                                                              Works Cited:     http://www.epcc.edu/Faculty/joeo/fire_scientific.htm. Online. Netscape Navigator. Feb. 4, 2001.  Thompson, Lawrance. Fire and Ice: The Art and Thought of Robert Frost. New York: Henry Holt, 1942.  Dante Alighieri. The Inferno. Trans John Ciardi. New York: Mentor, 1954.  Dante Alighieri. The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri. Vols. 9-11. Trans. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.  http://www.divinecomedy.org. Online. Netscape Navigator. Feb. 5, 2001. Â
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