Desire and Hate
¨Fire and Ice,¨ by Robert Frost, brings up a question that many people ponder on. Will the world end in fire or ice? Throughout the poem, the speaker is describing his point of view on the matter. The speaker gives a deeper meaning to the words “fire” and “ice” through symbolism and gives reasons of how they will cause the destruction of the world.
Frost is writing about two of the darkest characteristics of humanity: the capacity to hate, and the capacity to be consumed by lust. Of the two, he notes that the greater of two evils is desire, saying “From what I’ve tasted of desire / I hold with those who favor fire,” showing that he has had experience with desire (Lines 2-3). Based on his experience of “desire”, the speaker
¨Fire and Ice,¨ by Robert Frost, brings up a question that many people ponder on. Will the world end in fire or ice? Throughout the poem, the speaker is describing his point of view on the matter. The speaker gives a deeper meaning to the words “fire” and “ice” through symbolism and gives reasons of how they will cause the destruction of the world.
Frost is writing about two of the darkest characteristics of humanity: the capacity to hate, and the capacity to be consumed by lust. Of the two, he notes that the greater of two evils is desire, saying “From what I’ve tasted of desire / I hold with those who favor fire,” showing that he has had experience with desire (Lines 2-3). Based on his experience of “desire”, the speaker