Fire and Ice By: Robert Frost

I enjoyed reading this short poem by Robert Frost. The poem is set up to depict the end of the world, but the author adds a touch of emotional meaning to each line. Fire to me was viewed as passion or desire and perhaps chaos. Fire is the exaggeration of emotions, our vices, and bad deeds. as Ice is viewed as coldness, hatred, or can also be perceived as deep loneliness. Ice is the concrete emotionless end to a whirlwind of events. Both are related to one another in very similar terms (both being the end or final result, and not necessarily in a nice way). This poem could be an end to a relationship, a battle of identity which someone experiences, or just what it intends to come off as, the end of the world. I think Robert Frost is saying that both Fire and Ice (in emotional terms) are destructive, but can be destructive in very different ways to a persons life. I would recommend this poem to a friend because it can have multiple meanings depending on how you read it.