Fire_and_Ice.ppt

Fire and Ice;Background of the poem;About the author;Type of Work Fire and Ice is a lyric poem of nine lines centering on destructive emotions.? Publication Fire and Ice is one of Robert Frosts most popular poems, published in 1923 in his book New Hampshire. Content It discusses the end of the world, likening the elemental force of fire with the human emotion of desire and hate with ice. Also can explain the feeling of the end of the world. ;Fire and Ice Some say the world will end in fire., Some say in ice , From what Ive tasted of desire, I hold those who favor fire. 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.;有人说世界将结束于熊熊烈焰， 有人则说结束于凛凛寒冰。 欲望如火，体会其烈， 则知世之归于火为我所愿。 但若其必两度遭逢毁灭， 我知恨之极至， 毁灭之冰， 同样魁伟， 同样足够 ;Rhyme The poem contains three units of end rhyme（尾韵）. The first unit consists of lines 1, 3, and 4. The second consists of lines 2, 5, 7, and 9. The third consists of lines 6 and 8. Meter Frost wrote “Fire and Ice” in iambic tetrameter （扬抑格四音步）(lines 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7) and iambic dimeter （扬抑格双音步）(lines 2, 8, and 9). In iambic dimeter, a line has two pairs of syllables, each pair with an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. The first two lines of the poem demonstrate the tetrameter-dimeter format. 1 2 3 4 Some SAY | the WORLD | will END | in FIRE?  1 2 Some SAY | in ICE;Figures of Speech;Dantes Influence ;;Theme ;火与冰的多重象征意义（一）欲望与仇恨;（二）感性与理性;（三）热情与冷淡;（四）生存与死亡;（五）战争