HI Lecture 3: fire and ice

• School: Chettinad Academy of Research and Education - CARE
• Department: Architecture
• Course: HI
• Professor: All

Document Summary

Some say the world will end in fire, In these lines, the poet says that there are two theories held by the general people about how the world will be destroyed. The first group of people think that fire will cause the apocalypse to happen. It means that earth"s core will heat up to an extremely high temperature, then the heat will eventually reach the surface of the planet, and then everything on the surface will be destroyed beyond repair. Instead of destruction by heat, some people believes in the theory that the world will freeze till all the species of flora and fauna i. e. plants and wildlife inhabiting the earth become extinct once and for all. Hence, this theory is based on the power of ice which will change the living conditions on earth. The poet is aware of both these theories and will now proceed to compare them against each other.