Fable for Blackboard

I chose this poem because of its word choice and lack of a real meaning. Almost all the nouns I had to look up in a dictionary because I did not know the meaning. After finding the meanings of the words the poem made a lot more sense to me. I feel fairly confident I'll do well presenting but I'm still not quite sure whether or not to use hand signs to show the poem meaning.

I don't believe this poem holds any personal signifigance to me nor does it mean much to me. I also don't think there is much of a connection between me and the poem. I will prepare for the contest by reciting the poem so many times by memorization that when it comes time to present I won't have to think about it. I can just concentrate on the emotion I put in to the presentation.

Fire and Ice

I interpret Fire and Ice's meaning is that everyone has a preference to how they would like the world to end (if it had to). I think the poem is saying that there are 2 ways for the world to end, up in fire or frozen in ice. Some people would prefer up in fire and others would prefer frozen in ice. The author, Robert Frost, ironically chose that he would like the world to end in flames. But he would also except frozen in ice if he lived the scenario again.

I chose this poem because I have an opinion to on how I would like the world to end too. If it was up to me, I would have the world end in a sheet of ice rather than every thing and person burn to death. It seems like it would be much more pleasant to die of the cold then it would be to die on fire. That must sound odd to be talking about that but it is my honest opinion. The end of the world will not be relevant to my life or lifetime but in 5 million years people should start thinking about it.