"Fire and Ice" by Robert Frost

[Friends just call me Ross]

This is pretty deep...and some pretty tricky prose.  

 

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Fire and Ice

by Robert Frost

 

Some say the world will end in fire,

Some say in ice.

From what I've tasted of desire

I hold with those who favor 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.

 

 

[daydream]

https://poemanalysis.com/robert-frost/fire-and-ice/

 

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A lot of thought most definitely went into the creation of this poem.  It features a narrator describing the end of the world in their own vision, and it’s largely simplistic.

These first few lines describe the disagreement in general society on the topic of how the world ends.  Frost’s use of “fire” and “ice,” however, is largely a metaphoric decision that opens the poem up to different kinds of interpretation. Ice and fire, of course, are opposites of one another, suggesting that most people have entirely opposing views on the apocalypse — after all, the world can’t end in ice and fire at the same time. Ice and fire also represent two extremes which, on a grand enough scale, could cause immense damage, and are fitting metaphors for harbingers of death.

 

 

Edited April 23, 2021 by Mclove