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
"Robert Frost: Poems Summary and Analysis." Robert Frost: Poems Study Guide : Summary and Analysis of "Fire and Ice" (1923). N.p., n.d. Web. 8 Apr. 2014. .
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.”
Fire and Ice is a popular poem written in 1923 by Robert Frost. It is
Frost's poem addresses the tragic transitory nature of living things; from the moment of conception, we are ever-striding towards death. Frost offers no remedy for the universal illness of aging; no solution to the fact that the glory of youth lasts only a moment. He merely commits to writing a deliberation of what he understands to be a reality, however tragic. The affliction of dissatisfaction that Frost suffers from cannot be treated in any tangible way. Frost's response is to refuse to silently buckle to the seemingly sadistic ways of the world. He attacks the culprit of aging the only way one can attack the enigmatic forces of the universe, by naming it as the tragedy that it is.
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.
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.
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
In Robert Frost’s poem “Fire and Ice”, it presents an all out debate about the end of the world. It is clear that, through the title, the poem demonstrates the distinctions in which the world will either be engulfed in flames or covered in ice but the idea of the “lost paradise” is interpreted in a different manner. Frost’s poem is described as humorous or sardonic but there is a bit of irony in the speaker’s tone (230). Frost’s use of “natural lyrics provide a comparison with the outer scene and the psyche” (230). This meaning that the poem describes some of the general idea of hell through either fire or ice, but also presents it with the ironic undertones associated with them such as desire, hatred, passion and the idea of death. Though the poem is simple and short it presents the metaphorical downfall of the speaker in which he contrasts it to the end of the world.
Several new qualities emerged in Frost’s work with the appearance of New Hampshire, particularly a new self-consciousness and willingness to speak of himself and his art. The volume, for which Frost won his first Pulitzer Prize, “pretends to be nothing but a long poem with notes and grace notes,” as Louis Untermeyer described it. The title poem, approximately fourteen pages long, is a “rambling tribute” to Frost’s favorite state and “is starred and dotted with scientific numerals in the manner of the most profound treatise.” Thus, a footnote at the end of a line of poetry will refer the reader to another poem seemingly inserted to merely reinforce the text of “New Hampshire.” Some of these poems are in the form of epigrams, which appear for the first time in Frost’s work. “Fire and Ice,” for example, one of the better known epigrams, speculates on the means by which the world will end. Frost’s most famous and, according to J. McBride Dabbs, most perfect lyric, “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,” is
After reading this poem and being quite confused by it, I was determined to find out what it meant. Its simplicity is misleading because it can represent several opposites in the world today that correspond to fire and ice. To begin my understanding of the poem, I decided to answer some questions. First question was who is some? Some represents humans, which is not difficult to understand, but then some can also represent lovers. This poem is mainly about desire and hate. In the poem, fire represents desire and ice represents hate. The first theory of fire most likely came from the bible, which describes the world ending this way and the second theory of ice is the scientific theory of the world freezing over when the sun burns out. Knowing these theories was somewhat useful, but did not really aid in understanding Frost's opinion on which would make for a better end.
...us hate through the symbols of fire and ice. The narrator chooses fire over ice because it’s the most relatable for them and is, in his or her mind, preferable to the hate and coldness of ice. The narrator in “The Road Not Taken” also makes a decision based on how the choices presented relate to them. They chose to be an individual and not to shape their life around someone else’s decision. “Fire and Ice” is, at a deeper level, also very different from “The Road Not Taken” because it presents two specific choices that both lead to the same end while “The Road Not Taken” opens up the possibility for endless paths and decisions with an unknown result. Regardless of where the poems guide the narrator, Frost makes it clear that our decisions affect who we are, but also opens up speculation about what it would be like had we taken different turns. It’s impossible to know.
Frost Robert "Fire and Ice." Twentieth-century Poetry and Poetics. 4th ed. Ed. Gary Geddes. Toronto: Oxford, 1996.
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