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Poet: Robert Frost (Robert Frost Art)
Poem: 17.
Fire and Ice
Volume: New Hampshire
Year: Published/Written in 1923
Poem of the Day:
Feb 1 2003
Comment 141 of 141, added on December 10th, 2009 at 11:42 AM.
fire and ice
i agree with this poem because if i was to die twice i would want the world to end in both ways fire and ice is teh best poem frost has written
brian from United States
Comment 140 of 141, added on October 20th, 2009 at 6:39 PM.
Frost considers the fact that fire, equally as powerful as ice has an equal capacity to destroy the earth as does ice, its polar opposite. Honesty, when we consider all the talk about global warming, the melting of the polar ice caps, etc. and when you consider the bible's warnings about how the world will be destroyed, is it any wonder he wrote about this? The idea of opposites possessing the same level of power to achieve the same outcomes is interesting if not paradoxical in and of itself. Additionally, when we examine hate, often spoken of in relation to people behaving in a manner which seems cold as ice, it is no wonder that this comparison is made. Similarly, when people desire others, we speak of them being hot for them. So, desire is here discussed in conjunction with fire. Still, we can't ignore the fact that desire and hate, like fire and ice, are polar opposites of each other, and still, like fire and ice, have equal amounts of power. There are many, many ways in which desire can destroy the world: disease, murder, etc. Unpleasant as these things are they are seen when love runs to excessive degrees. In fact, when hate is excessive, we see war, murder, etc. Mankind will meet its end one day. It has always been clear that either a natural disaster or element such as fire or ice or our own excessive ways of pursing desire or hate (vengance) will cause our downfall.
From My Classroom from United States
Comment 139 of 141, added on October 1st, 2009 at 12:08 PM.
This poem as with any poem can mean several different things to anyone who reads it. This is the good thing about poetry as the writer writes it is one thing to him and as we the public read it, it becomes one thing to us. Therefore, no one's opinion can be wrong. The one thing I would like to say however; Frost, the author, was not a man who believed in the Christian God. Frost was an agnostic, so to think that this poem has anything to do with religion is just silly. If you are trying to analyze exactly what the poem was written about, it surely was not of that of heaven and hell. Though one can make out his own interpretation of what the poem says to you, quite literally this poem was written about the extremes of one's emotions in a relationship using figurative language to compare it to Fire and Ice.
Michala from United States
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i agree with this poem because if i was to die twice i would want the world to end in both ways fire and ice is teh best poem frost has written
brian from United States