1. There are many ideas about how the world will end ‘. Do you think the world will end someday? Have you ever thought what would happen if the sun got so hot that it ‘burst’, or grew colder and colder?

Ans: Yes, the world will end someday, though how it will happen is uncertain. If the sun got so hot that it burst, Earth would be destroyed by extreme heat and fire. Everything would burn to ashes. If the sun grew colder and colder, Earth would freeze completely, making life impossible. The world would become dark, lifeless, and covered in ice.

2. For Forest, what do ‘fire’ and ‘ice’ stand for?

Greed	avarice	cruelty	lust
conflict	fury	intolerance	rigidity
insensitivity	coldness	indifference	hatred

Ans: ‘Fire’ stands for greed, avarice, lust, conflict and fury. ‘Ice’ stands for cruelty, intolerance, rigidity, insensitivity, coldness, indifference and hatred.

3. What is the rhyme scheme of the poem? How does it help in bringing out the contrasting ideas in the poem? 

Ans: The rhyme scheme of the poem is- a b a a b c b c b.