The speaker in the poem is observing how people have said how the world was to end, and he commentates on this. The speaker is asking himself how he thinks the world will end, fire or ice, and which would be the better way for Earth to end. He gives reasons why he feels that the Earth will end in a certain way, and also tells what the fire and ice are to represent in society.

There are two negative qualities in the world, and both bring out bad. This is shown in the structure of this poem

Any emotion taken to the extreme is dangerous, and opposites become the same (destructive) at an extreme state. Robert Frost did an excellent job in getting the message across that both fire and ice can become the same thing with the same consequences if hatred or desire get to far. People must all be careful not to hate or desire something so much that it becomes an obsession, and leads to the end of the world for fire and ice exist in all of us and may come out and destroy at anytime.

about destructive force, they are essentially the same. Both causes have ended up hurting

the context of the end of the world.

In this poem, ice is also proving to be a metaphor for hate. "I think I know enough of hate, to say that for destruction ice is also great" lines 6, 7 and 8. Here the speaker makes a connection similar to that used in first half of the poem, although here it's between ice and hatred. It should be noted that the author is performing the same process with two sets of opposite thin

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Approximate Word count = 675
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)