fire and ice
Brainstorming:
Fire= Desire
Ice= Hate
Frost represents the world ending through feelings that humans have, not through natural disasters.
Talk about how desire covers your true appreciation for life itself
Hate makes the whole community negative and is a toxic environment.
SOAPSTone:
Subject: Robert Frost is comparing fire and ice to desire and hate.
Occasion: He is comparing desire and hate to express how the world is going to eventually end.
Audience: Anyone older than, and including younger adults because the subject matter is not really appropriate for young children.
Purpose: To show how peoples negative emotions and actions are very much so affecting the real world, and to explain that natural disasters may be able to physically destroy the world, but that the way the human race behaves can emotionally destroy it as well.
Speaker: Robert Frost is the speaker because this poem is from his perspective and opinion.
Tone: This poem has a very matter-of-fact, negative tone to it being that the actions he is describing are negative as well.
“Fire and Ice” Outline
Paragraph 1- Thesis Statement: Fire and ice are used to express and emphasize Robert’s feelings on how the world will eventually end. In his poem he compares fire to desire, and ice to hate.
Paragraph 2- Supporting Detail 1: In the world fire is compared to desire. Because fire is engulfing as is the emotion of desire. Desire also leads to temptation. And Frost captures this when he states “From what I’ve tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire.”(3-4) Desire is a want for something that one does not have. This can truly ruin people because they spend so much time thinking about what they want they never really take the time to appreciate what they have. This also creates a negative tension between humans in general.
Paragraph 3- Supporting Detail 2: Ice is also compared to hatred. Hate is also a cold emotion as is ice, which both the emotion and the natural occurrence
Fire= Desire
Ice= Hate
Frost represents the world ending through feelings that humans have, not through natural disasters.
Talk about how desire covers your true appreciation for life itself
Hate makes the whole community negative and is a toxic environment.
SOAPSTone:
Subject: Robert Frost is comparing fire and ice to desire and hate.
Occasion: He is comparing desire and hate to express how the world is going to eventually end.
Audience: Anyone older than, and including younger adults because the subject matter is not really appropriate for young children.
Purpose: To show how peoples negative emotions and actions are very much so affecting the real world, and to explain that natural disasters may be able to physically destroy the world, but that the way the human race behaves can emotionally destroy it as well.
Speaker: Robert Frost is the speaker because this poem is from his perspective and opinion.
Tone: This poem has a very matter-of-fact, negative tone to it being that the actions he is describing are negative as well.
“Fire and Ice” Outline
Paragraph 1- Thesis Statement: Fire and ice are used to express and emphasize Robert’s feelings on how the world will eventually end. In his poem he compares fire to desire, and ice to hate.
Paragraph 2- Supporting Detail 1: In the world fire is compared to desire. Because fire is engulfing as is the emotion of desire. Desire also leads to temptation. And Frost captures this when he states “From what I’ve tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire.”(3-4) Desire is a want for something that one does not have. This can truly ruin people because they spend so much time thinking about what they want they never really take the time to appreciate what they have. This also creates a negative tension between humans in general.
Paragraph 3- Supporting Detail 2: Ice is also compared to hatred. Hate is also a cold emotion as is ice, which both the emotion and the natural occurrence