Fire And Ice By Robert Frost Analysis

Significant discoveries often provide a platform for an individual’s transformation, as well as a change of perception and self identity. The re-evaluation of beliefs and attitudes are an impact of simplistic, yet often confronting discoveries. As a result of new understandings and findings in their world, individuals are able identify, analyse and evaluate their own perspectives of life. Robert Frost’s post-modernistic writing style and unique use of simple vignette in his pieces “After Apple Picking”, “Home Burial” and “Fire and Ice” depict and reflect upon the liminal processes an individual can undertake to come to an understanding, which can deliver them to a new understanding, ultimately changing their holistic selves and intrinsic mental
Robert Frost’s poems explore the liminal process in which human beings experience to evolve their understanding and scope on the world. The metacognitive dialogue with direct and internal questioning in “After Apple Picking” reveals how individuals can change their frame of mind and outlook on the world through discovery, with apples allegorically representing achievements. “There’s a barrel that I didn’t fill, and beside it there may be two or three.” Frost displays how discoveries through internal assessment, in this case, the realisation of potential missed opportunities, can expedite a re-evaluation of one’s view on life. Ish-Kishor’s short story “Appointment With Love” also explores transformations through the initial meeting of the two characters who had never seen each other face to face. Lieutenant Blandford’s liminal process through is highlighted through the use of simile to describe his first impression of Hollis Meynell. “In her pale green, she was like the springtime come alive” metaphorically symbolises transformation through referencing the season of spring which is has connotations associated with positive change, highlighting how discoveries can provide an individual with new understandings, in this case, a renewed perception on Hollis. This contrasts his original image of how Hollis would appear, portraying to the reader how simple, yet
Through these contrasts of emotional extremeties that remain in human being. Frost effectively conveys, through provocative discoveries, the potential of destruction. However a sense of ambiguity is created through the two contrasting even numbered line lengths indicating the opposition of fire and ice, contradicted by the uneven number of lines in the text. This suggests an inability to come to conclusion hence enabling individuals to re-evaluate their lives and to understand the world around