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Home » Class 10 English Notes » Fire and Ice (Poem-2) Summary || Class 10 English First Flight || Poem 2 ||

Fire and Ice (Poem-2) Summary || Class 10 English First Flight || Poem 2 ||

Posted on 05/05/202305/05/2023 by Anshul Gupta

Poem – 2

 Fire and Ice

In this post, we have given the summary of the Poem 2 “Fire and Ice”. It is the 2nd Poem of the prose of Class 10th CBSE board English. 

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Chapter NameFire and Ice
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Class 10 English First Flight Poem 2 “Fire and Ice” Summary
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Poem 2, FIRE AND ICE

~Summary~

-by Robert Frots

Stanza 1

Some say the world will end in fire

Some say in ice.

From what I’ve tasted of desire

I hold with those who favour fire.

Explanation: The poet is analysing about the end of the world. The poet provides and deals with two possible causes for the end of the world. He considers the age-old question of whether the world will end in fire or in ice. Both the two reasons contrast each other and are equally opposite to each other. On one side of the debate are those people who are in favour of fire. They believe that it will be the heat and the passion, which will lead the humanity, the world, to end. On the other side of the debate are those people who favour ice and feel that it will be the ‘ice which will freeze the world.

Frost is providing a powerful statement on the subject of greed and jealousy. He is saying that above anything else, even hatred, which is the trait of humanity, is most likely to lead the world to its demise.

व्याख्या: कवि विश्व के अंत के बारे में विश्लेषण कर रहा है। कवि दुनिया के अंत के लिए दो संभावित कारणों को प्रदान करता है और उनसे निपटता है। वह युगों पुराने प्रश्न पर विचार करता है कि क्या दुनिया का अंत आग में होगा या बर्फ में। दोनों कारण एक दूसरे के विपरीत हैं और समान रूप से एक दूसरे के विपरीत हैं। बहस में एक तरफ वो लोग हैं जो आग के पक्ष में हैं. उनका मानना है कि यह गर्मी और जुनून ही होगा, जो मानवता, दुनिया को खत्म करने की ओर ले जाएगा। बहस के दूसरी तरफ वे लोग हैं जो बर्फ के पक्ष में हैं और महसूस करते हैं कि यह ‘बर्फ’ होगी जो दुनिया को फ्रीज कर देगी।

फ्रॉस्ट लालच और ईर्ष्या के विषय पर एक शक्तिशाली वक्तव्य प्रदान कर रहे हैं। वह कह रहे हैं कि किसी भी चीज़ से ऊपर, यहाँ तक कि घृणा, जो कि मानवता का गुण है, दुनिया को उसके विनाश की ओर ले जाने की सबसे अधिक संभावना है।

Stanza 2

 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.

Explanation: The poet is very much sure of the destruction of the humanity. He first talks about the destruction caused by fire and in case this fails, then ice will result into hatred that will end humanity one day. Frost goes on to discuss, in a more understated manner, the power of hate, which is symbolised in the poem by ice. Hate, according to the speaker, is just as powerful as desire. While desire consumes, quickly, hate is just as great and powerful. Infact, by ending the poem with the concept of hate.

‘Frost directs the reader to the shy yet restrained devastation that hate can produce. Hate can occur and linger in people’s minds and hearts for years’, sometimes even lifetimes. Hate is presented as having the ability to lead to the destruction of the world if it were to happen for a second time, again providing a powerful warning against this human fallacy (misunderstanding).

व्याख्या- कवि मानवता के विनाश के प्रति पूर्णतया आश्वस्त है। वह पहले आग से होने वाले विनाश की बात करता है और अगर यह विफल हो जाता है, तो बर्फ नफरत में परिणत हो जाएगी जो एक दिन मानवता को समाप्त कर देगी। फ्रॉस्ट अधिक संक्षिप्त तरीके से, घृणा की शक्ति पर चर्चा करता है, जिसे कविता में बर्फ द्वारा दर्शाया गया है। वक्ता के अनुसार, घृणा उतनी ही शक्तिशाली है जितना कि इच्छा। जबकि इच्छा जल्दी से खा जाती है, घृणा उतनी ही महान और शक्तिशाली होती है। वास्तव में, नफरत की अवधारणा के साथ कविता को समाप्त करके।

‘फ्रॉस्ट पाठक को शर्मीली लेकिन संयमित तबाही की ओर निर्देशित करता है जो नफरत पैदा कर सकता है। नफरत हो सकती है और लोगों के दिलो-दिमाग में वर्षों तक, कभी-कभी जीवन भर भी रह सकती है। नफरत को दुनिया के विनाश की ओर ले जाने की क्षमता के रूप में प्रस्तुत किया जाता है अगर यह दूसरी बार होता है, फिर से इस मानवीय भ्रम (गलतफहमी) के खिलाफ एक शक्तिशाली चेतावनी प्रदान करता है।

Conclusion of Fire and Ice

The poem is revolving around the theme that human emotions are destructive, and has two possible forms.

कविता इस विषय के इर्द-गिर्द घूम रही है कि मानवीय भावनाएँ विनाशकारी हैं, और इसके दो संभावित रूप हैं।

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