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Class 10 English - First Flight Chapter Fire and Ice [poem] Summary, Explanation, Question Answers (NCERT Solutions)

Fire And Ice (Fire and Ice [poem]) CBSE class 10 English - First Flight Chapter Fire and Ice [poem] summary with detailed explanation of the lesson Fire And Ice along with meanings of difficult words. Given here is the complete explanation of the lesson, along with summary, explanation and questions and answers of each topic of lesson Fire and Ice [poem].

English - First Flight (Chapter Fire and Ice [poem]) Solution
 Thinking About The Poem

3. What is the rhyme scheme of the poem? How does it help in bringing out the contrasting ideas in the poem?

Answer :


The rhyme scheme of the poem is- a b a a b c b c b
This rhyme scheme helps in bringing out the contrasting ideas of ‘fire’ and ‘ice’ presented in the poem. The poet mentions that both fire and ice are probable ends of this world. He talks about how fire represents desire and can therefore be a cause of the end of the world. Frost also mentions ice in between to symbolise that the coldness and indifference towards one another will be enough to end the world. In the second stanza, he says that he knows of enough hate in the world to be sure that even destruction through ice . would be sufficient to bring about the end of the world.


All Questions of English - First Flight Chapter Fire and Ice [poem]
Thinking About The Poem
1. There are many ideas about how the world will ‘end’. Do you think the world will end some day? Have you ever thought what would happen if the Sun gets so hot that it ‘bursts’ or grows colder and colder?
2. For Frost, what do ‘fire’ and ‘ice’ stand for? Here are some ideas
greed, avarice, cruelty, lust, conflict, fury, intolerance, rigidity, insensitivity, coldness, indifference, hatred.
3. What is the rhyme scheme of the poem? How does it help in bringing out the contrasting ideas in the poem?

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