Robert Frost
Despite this poem's simple structure, Frost uses the nine lines to create a double meaning poem that could be taken a multitude of ways. The poem talks of destruction of the world, but not just the literal destruction of the world. At the time, some scientists believed that the world would either explode due to internal heat and pressure, fire, while others believed the world would enter into another Ice Age, ice. However, this is only one meaning. When he says fire he does mean literal fire, but he is also alluding to the emotions that are associated fire; he mainly focuses on fire's typical emotions of passion and lust, or desire. Ice is used to mean emotional cold, indifferent, and apathetic in addition to literally meaning ice. Using these, the poem could be used to describe how the world would be destroyed by a emotional breakdown of those who are overly passionate, fire, or those that are too indifferent to others, ice. Frost uses passion as fire because passion would erupt and take over people's life, not literally take over, and cause them to purse their passions to destructive ends. However, ice is used as indifference, or hate in the poem, and means that people will become so hateful that they would begin to kill each other with emotional indifference.
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