Robert Frost’s Fire and Ice Essay -- Fire and Ice Robert Frost Poems E

Robert halts Fire and churlFire and Ice is a popular poesy indite in 1923 by Robert hoarfrost. It isa very well known poem and is used in many high schools and collegestoday. Many students along with various critics read this poem asFrosts idea as to how the world is going to subvert. People also takethis in a Biblical sense, because the passage that god states the nexttime he destroys the world, it will be in fire. He blatantly states inthe first lines, Some say the world will end in fire, Some say inice, which leads many critics to believe the simplicity of this poemwas to be taken as primary and to the point. However, the poem waswritten in the roaring twenties, which is why I believe Frost had adeeper gist attached than how the world was going to end. Opposingmost critics with their count of this idea, I believe Robert FrostsFire and Ice is ab push through love. Fire being the love itself along withpassion, ice is the lack of love, rather than a view on the end of thewo rld.Katherine Kearns states that although you have to make a decisionbetween the language, it still seems as if Frost is trying to alludeto the end of the world (Cambridge University). Frost often writes ina very simply form, which is why critics argon constantly led to believeFrost had no double meaning out of the poem. The form of Fire andIce is again, simple in the writing, leaving it easy to see thesurface meaning and not look any deeper. The form and simple rhymescheme do not give readers the idea that the meaning would be sophilosophical.Through a deeper reading of the poem, I think Frost is trying todiscover the distinction between love and hate through symbolism. Fireis love or burning desire. The ice symb... ...rost was talking about love. In some sense,everyone has felt the effects of a burning love or lack of love, takenover by the feeling of coldness. Digging for a deeper meaning of thepoem, it is evident Frost was not only talking about the end of theworld, but also th e end of a person. The effects of love and hate areenough to put an end to a person, as are the effects of fire and iceto put an end to the world.Works CitedKearns, Katherine, Fire and Ice. On Fire and Ice. 1994. 17September 2005.http//www.english.uiuc.edu/Pobojewski, Sally. This Is the Way the World Ends. LSAmagazine 23.1(Fall 1999) 28-29.Sangiorgio, Yvette. Fire and Ice Fire and Ice- Robert Frost. 12 May2001. 17 September 2005. http//www.cs.rice.edu/Serio, John N. Fire and Ice. On Fire and Ice. 1994. 17 September2005.http//www.english.uiuc.edu/