Fire And Ice By Robert Frost

Fire and Ice is an unpretentious poem written by a relatively famous and well respected author named Robert Frost. Though the poem was moderately short in length with a stanza styled structure, it withheld an immense message that I was able to connect with on a deep and personable level. The focal topic of this piece was primarily about the end of the world, one subject that most of us as a society refuses to shed light on for discussion. Robert Frost has successfully utilized rhyme, metaphor, and imagery as a selection of intense language to create an applicable and true to thoughtful piece of work for his audience to relate to. Robert Frost predicts an apocalypse happening in the near future that is evoked by human emotions of hatred and desire.
Frost unambiguously uses fire as a metaphor to associate with desire as it is evident in the poem “From what I’ve tasted of desire / I hold with those who favor fire” (lines 3-4). In reference to fire, ice was also used as a metaphor of hate by Frost stating “I think I know enough of hate/ To say that for destruction ice is also great” (6-7). The metaphors that were used help the reader grasp Robert’s interpretation of how fire and ice can be in comparison to hatred and desire by emphasizing how their destructive properties can put an end to the world. I can relate to this metaphor that Robert Frost uses in Fire and Ice, for I too strongly believe that desire and hate are two of the many causes that can lead people into a war of destruction and the outcome will only result in a pointless world