Fire and Ice
NCERT solutions for English Fire and Ice
NCERT Solutions for Class 10 English Chapter wise Solutions
Footprints
- 1 A Triumph of Surgery
- 2 The Thiefs Story
- 3 The Midnight Visitor
- 4 A Question of Trust
- 5 Footprints without Feet
- 6 The Making of a Scientist
- 7 The Necklace
- 8 The Hack Driver
- 9 Bholi
- 10 The Book That Saved the Earth
First Flight
- 1 A Letter to God
- 2 Long Walk to Freedom
- 3 Two Stories about Flying
- 4 From the Diary of Anne Frank
- 5 The Hundred Dresses I
- 6 The Hundred Dresses II
- 7 Glimpses of India
- 8 Mijbil the Otter
- 9 Madam Rides the Bus
- 10 The Sermon at Benares
- 11 The Proposal
First Flight (Poem)
- 1 Dust of snow
- 2 Fire and Ice
- 3 A Tiger in the Zoo
- 4 How to Tell Wild Animals
- 5 The Ball Poem
- 6 Amanda
- 7 Animals
- 8 The Trees
- 9 Fog
- 10 The Tale of Custard the Dragon
- 11 For Anne Gregory
NCERT Solutions for Class 10 English Fire and Ice
1.There are many ideas about how the world will ‘end’. Do you think the world will end some day? Have you ever thought what would happen if the sun got so hot that it ‘burst’, or grew colder and colder?
Ans: Yes I believe that this world will end some but when nobody knows. Whether the sun gets hot or it gets colder in both the situations end of this world is sure.
NCERT Solutions for Class 10 English Fire and Ice
2. For Frost, what do ‘fire’ and ‘ice’ stand for? Here are some ideas:
| Greed | Avarice | Cruelty | Lust |
| Conflict | Fury | Intolerance | Rigidity |
| Insensitivity | Coldness | Indifference | Hatred |
Ans: ‘Fire’ stands for greed, avarice, lust, conflict and fury. ‘Ice’ stands for cruelty, intolerance, rigidity, insensitivity, coldness, indifference and hatred.
NCERT Solutions for Class 10 English Fire and Ice
3. What is the rhyme scheme of the poem? How does it help in bringing out the contrasting ideas in the poem?
Ans: The rhyme scheme of the poem is: a, b, a, a; b. c, b, c, b.
The contrasting ideas of ‘fire’ and ‘ice’ are presented using this rhyme scheme. He mentions that both fire and ice are probable ends of this world. While he talks about how fire represents desire and can therefore be a cause of the end of the world, he also mentions ice in between to symbolise that the coldness and indifference towards one another will also be enough to end the world. In the second stanza, he says that he knows of enough hate in the world to be sure that even destruction through ice would be sufficient to bring about the end of the world.