Question

can you please explain the double paradox here in the last two sentences?

Can we keep our heads in a world
with its yankee wit so lost
that the woods are a cry for fire
and minding the fire is frost?

Answer 1

See if the explanations here help make it clear:

http://www.thelogician.net/2_future_logic/2_chapter_32.htm

Let us know what you think.