CLASS- X

FIRE AND ICE (POEM)

EXTRACT BASED QUESTIONS

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.

a. Who wrote these lines?
b. What is the poet’s opinion about the world?
c. What is the contradictory opinion of public?
d. How are ice and fire are similar in this poem though they bear
contradictory traits?

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.

a. Who is ‘it’ refers to in this extract?

b. What does ice stands for?
c. What do you mean by ‘suffice’?
d. What would be the two causes of destruction?