Imagery is one of the crafts that is very well used. I think that as a reader and our culture always view fire as a bad thing because it have the power to destroy a lot on its path such as we see here in the Desert when we have wildlife fires but ice has the opposite effect. It is supposed to bring peace and beauty. At Christmas, many around the world eagerly await snow to fully bring the season of the joy. I think the same is said in this story.
The last two lines say: “where a man learns the danger of words/where even a curse can start a fire” (22-23). The reference to fire and heat pertains to the men and their inner struggles. Heat in the fields is not only experienced as a physical quality, but a mental one as well. This provides added imagery of the men working in the fields, that wasn’t offered in the beginning of the poem, creating additional imagery to support the struggles of working in the
While Fowler believes that the Westerners shouldn’t be in Vietnam, Pyle believes that it was the duty of the United States to hold off and contain communism in Vietnam. As Fowler was explaining that the Vietnamese want nothing to do with the war, Pyle begins to interject with “If Indochina goes…” when Fowler cuts him off saying “I know the record. Siam goes. Malaya goes. Indonesia goes” (Greene 86).
He states in this poem that those things make up who we are, and that these things are too difficult to let go for a fate that we don't know and scientists can't prove. It would be easier to stay behind and stick to the habits that keep us happy rether than accepting our own deaths and having to take on our own sadness. Lingering around as yourself would even be preferred to inhabiting an animal or object and living a lifetime as that. The poem opens with a Middle Ages' lore of having to block the holes of objects and sht the mouths of animals when someone dies so that person won't inhabit that object or creature, but immediately
The ice in this case represented the colder they were, the closer to death the person became. The snow that represented hatred did not only surround him, it became a part of him. But after he felt that coldness, it was described as “a small red flame” and coupled with the poem, “Fire and Ice”, where fire represents desire. The flame in this case represented the want to die. With death quite literally getting closer by the second.
For example, the poet uses a personification towards the poem saying to keep it “as a warm coat”, displaying the poet's desire to comfort and bring a warm feeling to the reader. The poet also uses a simile to express the poet’s want to protect the reader and keep them “tucked away like a cabin or hogan in dense trees” to protect them from any worldly dangers that might threaten to harm them. This simile presents the poet’s desire to act as a haven for the reader, and their desire to give the reader all their love because they can’t give any materialistic things. Throughout the poem, the poet presents the reader with lots of imagery to convey images of warm, protected, and comforting feelings. An example of this imagery is the poet welcoming the reader in with “a pot full of yellow corn”, giving the reader an image of coming in from the cold to be embraced with a warm comforting
Impulse is a sudden strong and unreflective urge or desire to act. In both Jim Heynan’s short story“What Happened During the Ice Storm” and John Montague’s poem “The Fight”, the characters take on roles that portray the different ways people act on impulse which is that when you find something new the first actions that come to mind are to either revere or ruin something. The role and results of impulse are made clear by the use of graphic and emotive words in both texts’ descriptions of the actions of the authors’ characters. In “What Happened During the Ice Storm”, Heynan uses lucid-like words when it comes to the characters’ actions to give readers the feeling of being on edge and shocked. The story takes place on a winter day during a freezing rain; farmers went out ice-skating to hunt the helpless pheasants whose eyes had frozen shut because of the supercooled weather.
Furthermore, this text relates to the world we live in with the way that one is desperate for what they want and would basically do anything in order to get it back. The meaning of this poem is basically how one can
The allusion to the author’s intended meaning was transduced in a euphemistic manner. Instead of applying any descriptive phrases, a pessimistic, melancholic atmosphere was used as an intermediate—a narrative that consists solely of subjective feeling, mixed with illusionary visual and sensational effects. Together these elements created a logically connected flow of feeling—isolation, self-contradiction, and moving gradually towards a dethatched despair, which reaches its climax in the refrains. “In the sunshine of the south you walk in blizzard; in the frigid northern winter I live an eternal spring.” The pungent feeling
The epigram poem “Fire and Ice” only nine lines long, is full of many emotions. There are often different levels of meaning interpreted, but I believe the author is addressing how the world will end, either by fire or ice, or perhaps both. It is unclear on which element will cause the destruction, but it is significant that the world ending will happen. The language used throughout the poem is easy to understand. Robert Frost used specific word choices with using a metaphor between comparing fire to desire and ice to hatred.
It’s said that Thomas was an alcoholic and it was deemed that the cause of his death was because of the obsession and also it was accentuated with the grief he felt for his father approaching death. The form of the poem is elegy whereby Thomas used the poem by expressing his grief for his father’s impending death. It is vital to know the poet state of mind in order to relate or understand the poem. Therefore, descriptive language used by the poet should be focused to further know the poet’s is trying to impose.
Which is that beauty comes from within. His purpose is teaching the poet that in order to create true and inspiring art he must look deep inside of himself. He starts to develop this idea with an extended metaphor as he explains that even if you have come to your lowest point in life “you still have your childhood, that jewel beyond all price, that treasure house of memories” (3) to inspire you and give you life again. This statement shows that even when you have been beat up and are lost you still have your priceless jewels of your past. Memories are something so beautiful and priceless that can not be taken away from you, because it comes from within you.
In the short story “What happened during the Ice Storm?” showed a theme of maturation using literary elements, specifically irony, symbolism, and the application of onomatopoeias were used to support the theme of maturation. The literary element irony is mostly used in the short story “What happened during the Ice Storm?” originally the boys wanted to hurt the pheasants like the author says, “They stood over the pheasants, turning their own heads, looking at each other, each expecting the other to do something. To pounce on a pheasant, or to yell Bang!” This quote is important because it showed the boys original intent; which was to hurt or kill the pheasants.
In the first stanza, we can already see how this poem can relate to the world today and how we feel about certain things. We as humans don't like change. Sometimes, we want something to happen so bad, that we don't consider how our life might change if this wish, this hope of something, actually happened. We sometimes may want something so bad, but fear what the consequences might be if something goes
Snow serves as a symbol of the love the couple once shared together. The narrator explains the night of the “big snow”, “Remember the night, out on the lawn, knee-deep in snow, chins pointed to the sky as the wind whirled down all that whiteness?” (108) which is a symbol of the climax of the love and happiness shared between the two lovers. However, the narrator uses the idea of snow once again, “just a few dots of white, no field of snow” (109) to contrast the previous image. The few dots of white symbolize the absence or dwindling of love and affection that was once shared in the house the narrator passes by.
