What style of writting is Fire and Ice by Robert Frost?And what does it symbolize?
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Fire and Ice is a rhymed poem. It basically says that heated emotions, such as anger...and the cold emotions, such as arrogance and indifference...are deadly and can cause your downfall. It's a serious short poem, but Frost's tone is flippant and ironic.
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some say the world will end in fire\nsome say in ice.\nfrom what I've tasted of desire\ni hold with those who favor fire.\n\nbut if it has to perish twice \ni think i know enough of hate\nto say that for destruction ice \nis also great and would suffice.
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I have always felt that the flames represent life. While fire is commonly used to represent destruction it also is used to represent life and warmth. This is seen in Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit  451 when he encounters the other exiles of the society using the fire as warmth instead of just to burn books. \n\nThe elegant tripods I feel represents the beauty and uniqueness of each life. The fire is like the fire within our very hearts and souls. While they are safe the fire burns strong as they burn time and life. \n\nIn the end the red death puts an end to this. "And the life of the ebony clock went out with that of the last of the gay. And the flames of the tripods expired. And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all. " The tripod's fire expiring is congruent to the death of the castles occupants.\n\nPlease note this is my interpretation of that symbol and I encourage you to analyze it and create your own.
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Robin_Thor has a good understanding about this literary giant and this is to let him know that we appreciate a good effort. \nWell itsamystery, hopefully you are rested up from your Spring Break because if this is an assignment that needs to be turned in I am afraid that you have some work to do.\nIn gratitude to you for your question I will answer you with 'my start' into this work which if not for your question I would still be outside on the patio.  \n\nHere goes a swell beginning:\n\n.\n\nWhy, Death Be Not Proud\nIn “Death Be Not Proud” the protagonist literary presenters are chosen teenagers for the reasons that the importance of this poem is to have a definite and positive impact on younger students and young adults alike across the world.  For it serves as guide for the confrontatious attitudes necessary in the face of, emotional, physical and spiritual adversity.  To forge a better social function among us that will inevitably present to our younger generations. These are all here and within this poem and which all support the theme of this magnificent writing.  In  “Death Be Not Proud” is found a generational social cohesiveness that is necessary for a functional society’s survival, and which is so well prayed by John Gunther’s 1947 memoirs.  \nIt is a penned offering intellectually and emotionally secured as a memoir to his son whose ultimate youthful death by a brain tumor at the age of seventeen is eminent. Gunther draws from his heart and from John Dunne’s 17th century “The Holy Sonnets: X” in producing this writing.  It is a poem, in which Gunther argues that ‘death should take no pride in what it does, as it is ultimately powerless to prevent the resurrection of all humanity.’ It can be presented at a literary discourse for educational purpose or as a play on a stage.  \n“Death be not proud, though some have called thee / mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so,\nFor those whom thou think’st thou dost overthrow,\nDie not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me.\nFrom rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be,\nMuch pleasure:  then from thee much more must flow,\nAnd soonest our best men with thee do go,\nRest of their bones, and soul’s delivery.\nThou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men,\nAnd dost with poison, war and sickness dwell;\nAnd Poppy or charms can make us sleep as well\nAnd better than thy stroke; why swell’st thou then? \nOne short sleep past, we wake eternally,\nAnd death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.     John Donne\nIt is a versified oratory free-verse poem with melodic tone, chant, and supple plea/defiant texture composed about young Johnny Gunther.  About his attitudes and strife for living in the face of a natural and inevitable defeat.  It is the presentation of the life of Johnny’s family and their recourse to every medical possibility known at the time, taken from an elegy of a long time past, converted from a poem of love and not a poem of mourning. And even unto an eternal spiritual search for the healing of the body, of the mind, and of the spirit of their son by John Gunther and his wife.  About their tessellated forms draught from their experiential abilities within such frames of human suffrage.  In explicit honesty are laid bare the pains and struggles of a family trying to delay the ultimate inevitable end for a son that is as brilliant as Johnny.  From the radical surgeries to strictly controlled diets in endless effort to save his life by a determined harmonious familial union in the face of adversarial reality as they live on for life’s sake. All while in defiance of any honor attributable by mere mortals to death’s demands. \n\nhttp://www.cs.rice.edu/ ssiyer/minstrels/poems/796.html  \n\n\nJose
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well its melancholic and easily fits the title "departed". Except your idea seems a bit fragmented in some stages.. yes the imagery in the opening few lines is good but you give away too much. keep it a mystery by using strong elongated metaphors to make the "death" a mere subtlety rather than having this grave sad and melancholic tone imediately established. \nthe name winter i commend you it applies greatly with the feel and raw emotion to the story, try flashbacks, use of colour and motifs to give more depth and meaning breaking the one tone of melacncholy through the story... try and keep with one tense and elaborating on that idea..\ntry interpreting the death differently i didnt expect the mother's death in the end.. however, use previous "departed" charachters in a lighter sense to make the loss of the mother feel much more greater..\n\nhope that helps! Good luck
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It is the Immigrant Song, but the first person is telling you incorrect lyrics.  It's really:\n\nWe come from the land of the ice and snow, where the midnight sun and the harsh wind blows.\n\nIt's a song about Vikings conquering new places.
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"Death of a Hired Man" \n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\nRobert Frost’s poem, “Death of a Hired Man” is a story of one family and the man, Silas, who used to work on their farm. The poem is the discussion between Warren and Mary regarding what to do with Silas since he has returned after being told not to come back. Upon hearing of Silas’ return,... \n\nShort Analysis of “The Death of a Hired Man” \n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\nRobert Frost’s poem, “Death of a Hired Man” is a story of one family and the man, Silas, who used to work on their farm. The poem is the discussion between Warren and Mary regarding what to do with Silas since he has returned after being told not to come back. Upon hearing of Silas’ return,...
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According to SPARKNOTES, there's 3::\n\nParadoxes- \n\nIn the beginning of “The Hearth and the Salamander,” Montag’s bedroom is described first as “not empty” and then as “indeed empty,” because Mildred is physically there, but her thoughts and feelings are elsewhere. Bradbury’s repeated use of such paradoxical statements—especially that a character or thing is dead and alive or there and not there—is frequently applied to Mildred, suggesting her empty, half-alive condition. Bradbury also uses these paradoxical statements to describe the “Electric-Eyed Snake” stomach pump and, later, the Mechanical Hound. These paradoxes question the reality of beings that are apparently living but spiritually dead. Ultimately, Mildred and the rest of her society seem to be not much more than machines, thinking only what they are told to think. The culture of Fahrenheit 451 is a culture of insubstantiality and unreality, and Montag desperately seeks more substantial truths in the books he hoards.\n\nAnimal and Nature Imagery-\n\nAnimal and nature imagery pervades the novel. Nature is presented as a force of innocence and truth, beginning with Clarisse’s adolescent, reverent love for nature. She convinces Montag to taste the rain, and the experience changes him irrevocably. His escape from the city into the country is a revelation to him, showing him the enlightening power of unspoiled nature.\n\nMuch of the novel’s animal imagery is ironic. Although this society is obsessed with technology and ignores nature, many frightening mechanical devices are modeled after or named for animals, such as the Electric-Eyed Snake machine and the Mechanical Hound.\n\nReligion- \n\nFahrenheit 451 contains a number of religious references. Mildred’s friends remind Montag of icons he once saw in a church and did not understand. The language Bradbury uses to describe the enameled, painted features of the artifacts Montag saw is similar to the language he uses to describe the firemen’s permanent smiles. Faber invokes the Christian value of forgiveness: after Montag turns against society, Faber reminds him that since he was once one of the faithful, he should demonstrate pity rather than fury.\nThe narrative also contains references to the miracle at Canaa, where Christ transformed water into wine. Faber describes himself as water and Montag as fire, asserting that the merging of the two will produce wine. In the biblical story, Jesus Christ’s transformation of water into wine was one of the miracles that proved his identity and instilled faith in his role as the savior. Montag longs to confirm his own identity through a similar self-transformation.\n\nThe references to fire are more complex. In the Christian tradition, fire has several meanings: from the pagan blaze in which the golden calf was made to Moses’ burning bush, it symbolizes both blatant heresy and divine presence. Fire in Fahrenheit 451 also possesses contradictory meanings. At the beginning it is the vehicle of a restrictive society, but Montag turns it upon his oppressor, using it to burn Beatty and win his freedom.\n\nFinally, Bradbury uses language and imagery from the Bible to resolve the novel. In the last pages, as Montag and Granger’s group walk upriver to find survivors after the bombing of the city, Montag knows they will eventually talk, and he tries to remember appropriate passages from the Bible. He brings to mind Ecclesiastes 3:1, “To everything there is a season,” and also Revelations 22:2, “And on either side of the river was there a tree of life . . . and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations,” which he decides to save for when they reach the city. The verse from Revelations also speaks of the holy city of God, and the last line of the book, “When we reach the city,” implies a strong symbolic connection between the atomic holocaust of Montag’s world and the Apocalypse of the Bible.
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Poet                   "Poem"\nWilliam Blake          "A Divine Image"\nEdmund Spenser         "My Love Is Like To Ice"\nJohn Donne             "Death Be Not Proud"\nLady Mary Chudleigh    "To The Ladies"\nWilliam Wordsworth     "I Wanddered Lonely As A Cloud"\nJohn Mccrae            "In Flanders Field"\nF.R. Scott             "Calamity"\nX.J. Kennedy           "Nude Descending A Staircase"
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OK, I'll give it my best shot...\n\n* Who is the speaker or speakers in the poem, and what is the situation?\n\nThe speaker appears to be a military trainee, learning about the names of parts in (bolt, breech, saftey, etc. ) and functions of his rifle.\n\n* What basic contrasts are represented by the trainees and by the gardens?\n\nThere are several:\n"..eloquent gestures, Which in our case we have not got."\nNot much eloquent about cleaning a rifle...\n\n"If you have any strength in your thumb. The blossoms\nAre fragile and motionless"\nStrength vs fragility\n\n"Easing the spring. And rapidly backwards and forwards\nThe early bees are assaulting and fumbling the flowers:\n          They call it easing the Spring"\nTwo different definitions of spring, one in the rifle, one a season.\n\nand more...\n\n* What statement does the poem make about war as it affects men and their lives?\n\nWar is about hard, cold things like rifles and all that goes with war, whereas the gardens represent beauty, silence, peace.\nThe gardens bring out the best in man, wars the worse.\n\nHope this helps!
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i dont know about symbolism, but he definietly uses metaphors.  he compares humans to little helpless wretched bugs.  then he uses the imagery of being held over the fire. i could be wrong, but i cant think of any symbolism though.
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Mine's gotta be ice - I absolutely love the cold! Fire doesn't really appeal to me (I hate the heat - even from a warm oven, or a burning fireplace). Besides, ice can be scuplted into different shapes (which just proves how incredibly versatile it is).\n\nFire on the other hand is just a flame licking all over the place, burning with passion and searing with heat.\n\nThat of course, is not to say that I'm a cold hearted guy with an icy stare. I just like the ice... =p
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The theme is the main idea of the poem--you could almost say what the poem is about. A poem may talk about frozen birches, but the bigger message is how ice bends the branches, like life bends people sometimes. Here's a good source (below). I am answering this because I love poetry. Only in school does it matter what the theme seems to be. The truth is, a poem means what it means to you personally and that is the truth. Read some modern poets like Mary Oliver, Ted Koozer, Langston Hughes, Dorianne Laux before you give up on poetry.
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I searched in a variety of ways but I couldn't find anything.  Is it the same Lufburow who wrote the poem about the oak tree?  I odn't know if that cold help you somehow.  That is about the only reference I could find.
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Roses are red, \nViolets are blue, \nSugar is sweet, \nAnd so are you. \n\nMost believe that the original source of the poem were the following lines written in 1590 by Sir Edmund Spenser for his epic The Faerie Queene \n\nShe bathed with roses red, \nAnd violets blew \nAnd all the sweetest flowres \nThat in the forrest grew.
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If you use Shel Silverstein, your teacher will give you an F unless you're in about fourth grade.  Use Emily Dickinson's "After Great Pain"\n\nAfter great pain a formal feeling comes--\nThe nerves sit ceremonious like tombs;\nThe stiff Heart questions--was it He that bore?\nAnd yesterday--or centuries before?\nThe feet, mechanical, go round\nA wooden way\nOf ground, or air, or ought,\nRegardless grown,\nA quartz contentment, like a stone.\n\nThis is the hour of lead\nRemembered if outlived,\nAs freezing persons recollect the snow--\nFirst chill, then stupor, then the letting go.
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Absolutely not! Was Robert Frost gay? Nope. Walt Whitman? Negative. Ralph Waldo Emerson? Nein. Poetry is simply the ability to express thoughts in art form. Lots of women think it's sexy, in fact. So no way is it gay!\n\nEdit: Oops--Whitman was gay. Sorry. LOL But he just happened to be a gay poet. Writing poetry isn't what made him gay!