Page 1 - fire & ice poem

SAI INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL

GRADE X

ENGLISH

LESSON 2- FIRE AND ICE(POEM)

ABOUT THE POET
Robert Lee Frost (March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963) was an American Nature poet. His
work was initially published in England before it was published in America. He became one
of America's rare "public literary figures, almost an artistic institution." He was awarded the
Congressional Gold Medal in 1960 for his poetic works.
OBJECTIVE

• To enable the students appreciate the beauty, rhyme and style of the poem.
• To make students understand the thought and imagination contained in the poem.
• To make students think about different human emotions and their effect.
• To inspire them write their feelings in the form of short poems.

INTRODUCTION
Robert Frost’s poem “Fire and Ice” expresses the profound idea that the world would end in
either of two ways, either by ice or fire. Both the components are compared with self-
destructing human emotions: hatred and desire. The poem, very artistically, underpins the
philosophy that we let our emotions rule us and if don’t control them they will surely destroy
everything around us. Similarly, he thinks fire and ice, both are just as competent in bringing
the world to a catastrophic end.