1. How do you analyse a poem?
Instructions about how to make it + example

2. Step 1: CONSIDER THE TITLE
The title of a poem is an important element for analyze and understand what the text is about. It catches the attention of the reader and It invites him/ she to read on.

3. Step 2: CONSIDER THE LAYOUT
The layout helps the reader to understand what he/she is reading. Poem is arranged in a different way from narrative text or ballad ( for example) so it is very usefull for genres comprehension.

4. Step 3: denotative analysis
The denotative analysis helps the reader to comprehend what is written in the text.

5. Step 4: connotative analysis
It is used to understand the meaning of what the poet wants to express, in this part of the analysis the reader pays attention to the figures of speech.

6. Step 5: CONCLUSION
It is the last part of the analysis where the reader gives his/hers opinion and where he/she synthesizes what is the meaning of the text.

7. “Fuoco e Ghiaccio" di Robert Frost
Example analysis
"Fire and Ice"
by Robert Frost
“Fuoco e Ghiaccio" di Robert Frost
Dicono alcuni che finirà nel fuoco il mondo; altri nel ghiaccio. Del desiderio ho gustato quel poco Che mi fa scegliere il fuoco, Ma se dovesse due volte finire, So pure che cosa è odiare, E per la distruzione posso dire Che anche il ghiaccio è terribile E può bastare.
Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I've tasted of desire I hold with those who favour fire. But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice.

8. "Fire and Ice"
Considering the title you can understand it is built on an oxymoron that it is a figure of speech that juxtaposes elements that appear to be contradictory . Fire is an element that means hot whereas Ice is cold, this two words can describe also the difference between love and hate, passion and torment .

9. hOW the poem is organized?
It is written in a single 9-line stanza, which greatly narrows in the last two lines. The poem's meter is an irregular mix of iambic tetrameter and dimeter, and the rhyme scheme (which is A-B-A, A-B-C, B-C-B) follows the pattern of terza rima.

10. What does it tell?
The speaker brings us into the middle of an argument between people who think the world will come to a fiery end and people who think the world will freeze. He could be talking about the literal end of the world, but he's also talking about the power that human beings have to harm or "destroy" one another. The speaker's experience with romantic desire has taught him that passionate or "hot" emotions like love and lust would probably have the power to turn the earth into a big fireball. But he has also experienced the other extreme, and he knows that colder emotions like hate have great destructive power. Love gets all the publicity, but hate is the silent killer. It may not have the same grandeur as the fireball ending, but it'll do the trick.

11. What does the poet try to express? How does he make it?
The poem revolves around the two symbols of fire and ice. In the first two lines, we don't yet know that they are symbols. Judging by these lines alone, this could be a poem about theories of modern science. But when the speaker associates fire with desire and ice with hate, we know that fire and ice are symbols for human behaviors and emotions. But the poem does not close down possibilities for your imagination to run wild by telling us exactly what these two basic forces represent. You should feel free to relate them to your own thoughts and experiences and come up with an interpretation.
Lines 1 and 2: These two lines have a parallel structure, beginning with "Some say." This phrase is an example of alliteration. Fire and ice, as we mentioned above, are symbols. Specifically, they represent emotions like "desire" and "hate." But be careful – there's no reason to think that these are all that fire and ice represent. Desire and hate are merely examples that fall in a broader category.
Line 4: "Fire favor" is an example of alliteration. Both words begin with the same letter.
Line 8: The word "great" in this line means "powerful," not "fantastic."
Line 9: It is highly ironic to say that ice will "suffice" to destroy the world. "Suffice" is a word that has connotations of restraint, not excess. You can imagine a stern parent lecturing a child, "That will suffice, young man!" if he or she didn't want to say, "Cut it out!" But the end of the world is the ultimate example of excess and violence. The tone at the end of the poem seems almost absurd.

12. Sum up!
In conclusion the author is trying to say that the world will end in fire, or be incinerated and even if his conjecture were wrong it would be happening regardless of human will .