COMPARISON BETWEEN FIRE AND ICE BY

ROBERT FROST AND FIRE AN RAIN BY

GIRISH KARANAD

Name :Gohil Beenaba s

Paper:10 ,American literature

Roll No:14

E-mail:binagohil1995@gmail.com

Submitted to M K Bhavanagar University, deot.of english

TITLE

Fire and rain Fire and ice

COMAPRISION

Robert frost

Poem

Influence of myth

Inspired by a passage

in Canto 32

of Dante's Inferno

Girish Karanad

Drama

Influence of myth

Inspired by Indian epic

Mahabharata

Fire and ice Fire and rain

FIRE AND ICE

“Fire and Ice” is one of Robert Frost's most popular poems, published in December 1920 in Harper's Magazine[1] and in 1923 in his Pulitzer Prize–winning book New Hampshire. It discusses the end of the world, likening the elemental force of fire with the emotion of desire, and ice with hate. It is one of Frost's best-known and most anthologized poems

FIRE AND RAIN

‘The Fire and the Rain’ , is the translation of his Kannada play “Agni Mattu Male”. ‘The Fire and the Rain’ is Karnad’splay of jealousy for power, politics, sexual, exploitation, humiliation and isolation of characters. Everybody is anybody’s enemy in the name of power and jealousy

THEMES

Choice

Fear

Love

hate

Alienation,

Loneliness

Love,

Family

Hate

Fire and ice Fire and rain

MYTH

A parallel

between the

nine lines of

the poem with

the nine rings

of Hell

MYTH

Its theme is

derived from

the myth,

“Aranyaparva“

of the great

Indian epic, the

Mahabharata

CONCLUSION

In any of the time or culture there is an influence of

myth.

We find it in both of the writers work whether it is

drama or poem or any of the literary work.

The cultural influence as well geographic influence

is also found in all literary work. e.g.rain and ice.