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In three pages this paper analyzes the poem’s imagery, human characteristics, considers theories on the end of the world evoked from the first two lines, and examines how the speaker’s use of understatement and rhyme affect its tone. There are no additional sources listed in the bibliography.
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which all prose should be measured. He had an innate understanding of the medium, and realizing that less is more, could convey complex messages in a powerfully understated manner.
Frost was a complicated man whose life was filled with loss and frequent bouts of depression. By 1923, he had endured the deaths of his parents and two
young children. Perhaps this is what inspired him to write one of his early poems, "Fire and Ice," in which the speaker contemplates if the world will freeze or
meet a fiery end, and whether either preferable to the other. There is also a sense that the speaker is comparing these cosmic fates to extreme life choices, which
can also have destructive consequences: Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what Ive 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 (Frost 220). The
speaker is comparing Armageddon or the mortal battle between good and evil that destroys the world in the New Testament with human behavior. Contrasting the images of fire and
ice are repeated to emphasize the duality of human nature. They also reveal how love and hate also uneasily coexist within the human experience. Like the poetic allegory
of fire and ice used to describe alternate ends of the world, love and hate represents a metaphor of the human experience. Though diametrically oppositional, they are equal in
intensity and can provoke behavioral excesses. The natural human inclination is toward desire, as the poet depicts through personification in the line, "From what I tasted of desire," hatred
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