Fire and Ice

Title: Fire and Ice
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 157 | Pages: 0.7 (approximately 235 words/page)

Fire and Ice

“Fire and Ice” by Robert Frost is an epigram which presents the poet’s dislike of hatred, indifference, and desire that human beings display towards one another. Compressing these feelings into an epigram tends to make his message quite clear and brief. Thus, Frost’s tone in “Fire and Ice” is somewhat glib and straight to the point—perhaps even slightly stoic. The only bit of emotion that he reveals is in line three, where …showed first 75 words of 157 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 157 total…of desire….” It seems that the speaker finds destruction of the world by fire more appropriate for squelching desire (perhaps some sort of immoral desire, such as stealing or adultery) and ice “would suffice” in smothering the world’s collective hatred. Once again, considering “Fire and Ice” is so brief, the poet’s emotional involvement in the writing is very detached. Rather than describing his feelings, Frost unconventionally speaks about the world’s final destruction.

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