Talk:Fire and Ice (poem)

message: Or could it be that the poem is simply shorter than the frequency of the pattern's repetition? </zen>  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.76.32.145 (talk) 23:59, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Oooooh ... —Wegesrand (talk) 12:25, 1 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  "no regular pattern" 

message: I removed this:
"Some scholars have pointed out that the poem's shape can appear like dangling icicles if viewed one way, and like the flames of fire if viewed the other."
This is true of 95% of poems, since they are generally left aligned with some lines longer than others. Feel free to put this back in if you can link to an article where an actual scholar really does point this out. It's been tagged as unsourced for two weeks. 96.233.71.33 12:24, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  poem shape 

message: Does anyone have the original 1920 or 1923 works? Can anyone comment on common variations I've seen?:
 * To (say/know) that for destruction ice is also (great/nice) and would suffice.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Alexgenaud (talk • contribs) 12:02, 3 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: variations

message: how can this be a 1923 pullitzer price winning piece when it was written in 1964? -72.192.95.28 05:29, 2 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Where does it say this in the article? (or where has it said this) SmileToday☺(talk to me , My edits) 00:02, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: question

message: This article would be better if it had the templates for wikisource.  I don't know how to do this.
--76.165.248.106 (talk) 03:57, 9 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for the suggestion, it's been added ^,^ Ink Falls (talk) 22:26, 10 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  wikisource 

message: http://cowbirdsinlove.com/comics/fireandice.png ? --81.102.234.88 (talk) 02:54, 18 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: In Popular Culture

message: Isn't the picture of the star exploding quite random??  The fire in the poem refers to desire and not physical fire such as... a star exploding.  Maybe replace it (if there MUST be a picture) with something to do with war - representing fire and ice.
That said, it is a cool picture.  If you don't care the least about whether or not it relates to the poem then may as well keep it. NickPriceNZ (talk) 23:05, 15 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Well the poem poses the scientific question(Harlow Shapeley argues its what the poem is about) of how the world will end. The two ways are either the sun exploding and incinerating the Earth, or the Earth escaping just to slowly freeze in deep space. It's just another, more literal interpretation of the poem, even though it is primarily about human emotion destroying the world. Ink Falls 01:15, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: the picture should be removed, not because the fire the refers to is a metaphorical one, but because it is in no way helpful to the article. A picture of a log fire or a burning building or an ice cube or a snowy mountain would all be equally if not better pictures to include.--71.236.29.119 (talk) 22:11, 13 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Picture 

message: in the audio, the narrator says,"if I had to perish twice" instead of "if it had to..." as in the poem.just a little narration error The wiki blues (talk) 13:23, 26 June 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for pointing that out. Unfortunately, there's not really any changes we can make to the article as the sound file itself is wrong. The article has the correct text from the poem. Will look into a way of requesting a correction of this. Living Concrete (talk) 07:15, 27 June 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 26 June 2021