The Great War, an infamous event in human history, had a huge impact on the young minds of that generation. Two of those minds impacted by the war stem from the lost generation of famous authors, Robert Frost and John McCrae. As part of the lost generation they had the most impact on the literary world that inspired future generations of authors. Robert Frost’s “Fire and Ice” poem can be interpreted as his view of how the Great War ended in Fire “the world will end in fire”(Frost, 1106). World War One ended in death and destruction, Frost used this as a translation of how the world will end in fire in his poem. Frost had been affected by the war that greatly impacted his literary work especially his poem ‘Fire and Ice”. In the poem Frost
