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The document summarizes a poem called "Fire and Ice" by Robert Frost and discusses the key symbols and themes. It also summarizes and asks questions about two additional poems: "Dust of Snow" and an untitled poem about a farmer named Lencho who writes a letter to God asking for help after his crops are destroyed. [1] In "Fire and Ice", fire represents desire and ice represents hate, both of which the poet sees as equally powerful forces of destruction. [2] In "Dust of Snow", a crow shakes snow from a tree onto the poet, lifting his mood. [3] The story of Lencho details his crops being destroyed by hail and his writing to God

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Chapter 1 Poem 1,2

The document summarizes a poem called "Fire and Ice" by Robert Frost and discusses the key symbols and themes. It also summarizes and asks questions about two additional poems: "Dust of Snow" and an untitled poem about a farmer named Lencho who writes a letter to God asking for help after his crops are destroyed. [1] In "Fire and Ice", fire represents desire and ice represents hate, both of which the poet sees as equally powerful forces of destruction. [2] In "Dust of Snow", a crow shakes snow from a tree onto the poet, lifting his mood. [3] The story of Lencho details his crops being destroyed by hail and his writing to God

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FIRE AND ICE -Robert Frost

Study the stanza and answer the questions :


1. Some say …….. who favor fire.
Questions:-
a)Name the poem and the poet.
b)According to the poet, what are the two destructive forces?
c)What do they stand for?
Answers:
a. Fire and Ice – Robert Frost
b. Fire and Ice
c. Fire stands for Desire and Ice stands for Hate.
2. But if it ……would suffice.
Questions:
a.Why does the poet think that ‘Ice’ is suffice to cause destruction of the world?
Answer:
a.The poet thinks that there is enough hatred among people in the world. This hatred
among people in the world. This hatred will melt the fabric of society and the whole world
come to an end.

SHORT QUESTIONS
1. What does the poet think about the end of the world?
Ans:-The poet initially agrees with those who think that fire is the main force of
destruction. But at the end of the poem he says that both fire and ice are equally
destructive and powerful.
2. What do Fire and Ice symbolize in the poem Fire and Ice? or
Write the sum and substance of the poem Fire and Ice.
Ans:- ‘Fire’ stands for desire that make some one greedy and selfish. Another force ‘Ice’
stands for hate that causes people to be rigid, unmoving and cold.
DUST OF SNOW

1.How did the crow change poet’s mood?


Ans:-The poet was going some where in a snowy morning. He was upset. All the trees were
covered with snow. A crow sitting on a Hemlock tree shook the tree that some dust of snow fell
on the poet and it changed his mood & he felt unburdened and relaxed..

Q. Study the stanza and answer the question :


And saved some part
Of a day I had rued
Why does the poet say that he has saved some part of a day?
Ans:-crow shook down the dust of snow on the poet. But crow and hemlock tree are a bad omen.
But the poet took it as a positive way. He found himself relieved from sorrow after this incident.

Letter to God could not have made such a mistake. He

1.Why did Lencho write a letter to God? thought the post office employees must have

Ans : Lencho was a poor, hard working farmer. stolen the money sent by God. He wrote

His field of ripe corn promised a good harvest. another letter to God requesting him to send

A light rain was needed. Lencho was very him the remaining thirty pesos. He further

happy when it started raining. But the rain was asked God not to send the money through the

followed was a strong wind and hailstones. His mail as the employees of the post office were

crops were completely destroyed. He knew that ‘a bunch of crooks’.

his family would go hungry that year. Lencho 3. What kind of people were the post office

had firm faith in God. So he wrote a letter to employees?

God & requested to send him one hundred Ans : The post office employees were kind-

pesos. hearted people. They decided to help Lencho

2.How did Lencho react to the help? by contributing some money for this noble

Ans : Lencho was the not surprised to see the cause. They could collect only seventy pesos

money in the envelope. When he counted the and sent the same to Lencho.

money, he got angry. The envelope contained


only seventy pesos. He was sure that God
4. What did Lencho hope for? 7. What were Lencho’s feelings when the
Ans : Lencho hoped for rain. The earth needed hail stopped?
a down pour or atleast a shower. Throughout Ans : When the hail stopped , the corn was
the day he hoped for a shower. totally destroyed. Lencho’s soul was filled with
5. Why did Lencho say the raindrops were sadness. He was upset. He thought that his
like ‘new coins’? family would go hungry this year.
Ans : Big drops were 10 cents and the little 8. Why does the postmaster send money to
ones with the five cents. He called them so Lencho? Why does he sign the letter ‘God’?
because the needed rain for a good harvest. A Ans : Lencho wrote a letter to God seeking 100
good harvest would mean more money. pesos. The letter was received by the
6. How did the rain change? What postmaster. He was impressed with his deep
happened to Lencho’s fields? faith in God. He did not want to shake his
Ans : Suddenly a strong wind began to blow faith. So, he decided to send him the money.
and along with the rain very large hailstones The postmaster signed the letter ‘God’ to make
began to fall for an hour on the house and the him believe that it was God only who helped
fields. Lencho’s fields became white as if him.
covered with salt. Not a leaf remained on the
plants & the corn was totally destroyed.

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