Fire and Ice

Fire and Ice

-by Robert Frost

Some say the world will end in fire,

Some say in ice.

From what I've tasted of desire

I hold with those who favore fire.

But if it had to perish twice,

I think I know enough of hate

To say that for destruction ice

Is also great

And would suffice.

This poem may seem short but I think it has lots of connotations in it. I figured out after reading few times that Robert Frost wasn't saying fire and ice just literally, but they each have meanings. By fire I think he meant to say something hot like passion or desire and by ice he meant to say something cold like apathy. He says at the beginning that either desire or apathy would end the world and I think he didn’t mean that literally either. Frost says that he had tasted desire before and agrees with people that said that desire would destroy the world. By that, I thought that he had had some bad experiences by having a strong desire for something. I quite don’t get what ‘But if it had to perish twice,’ but I agree with him that desire and apathy both have potential to destroy the world.