Class 10 English First Flight Chapter 2 Previous Year Questions - Fire and Ice

Ans: According to the poet, human’s never-ending desires and ever increasing hatred would be enough to bring destruction to the world. In the poem, the fire represents desire. Like fire, desire spreads quickly and overpowers a person's sane thinking and whole life. The poet personally holds the conviction that the world will primarily end in fire as he was a victim of the fiery aspect of desire. He had experienced its destructive effects in life by his own confession (from what I’ve tasted ....)

Ans: (a)
In the poem, Fire symbolizes emotions like desire and cruelty, while Ice represents coldness, insensitivity, and hatred.

Ans: (c) have the same opinion as
The phrase "I hold with those" means "I have the same opinion as those" who believe in the destructive power of fire, making (c) the correct replacement.

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HINTS:
- Poem discusses the way the world can end.
- Fire stands for great/lust/human desire; Ice stands for hatred/coldness/human indifference;
- World can end with either greed or indifference.

Ans: Ice stands for the cold feelings of the humans such as indifference, hatred, greed, jealousy, apathy, a lack of love, cold-heartedness, etc. Although the poet states that he believes fire would bring an end to the world, he also states that If the world has to end twice, then ice or the cold feelings of people are also enough to end the world.