“Fire and Ice” by Robert Frost

“Fire and Ice” by Robert Frost 

        Robert Frost was born on March 26, 1874, in San Francisco, where his father, William Prescott Frost Jr., and his mother, Isabelle Moodie, had moved from Pennsylvania shortly after marrying. After the death of his father from tuberculosis when Frost was eleven years old, he moved with his mother and sister, Jeanie, who was two years younger, to Lawrence, Massachusetts.

About his personal life.

Frost personal life is not good. In 1885 when Frost father died leaving the family with just eight dollars. His mother died of cancer in 1900.

About his works.

 “Fire and Ice”

 “The Gift Outright”

 “Design”

 “Mending wall”

 “Home Burial”

Fire and Ice :-

‘Fire and Ice’ Fire and Ice are opposites.

Some say the world will end in fire,

Some say in ice.

From what I’ve tasted of desire

I hold with those who favor 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.  

                                           

The speaker considers the age-old question of whether the world will end in fire or in ice. This is similar to another age-old question: whether it would be preferable to freeze to death or burn to death. The speaker determines that either option would achieve its purpose sufficiently well.

‘Fire’ it is a symbol for desire. ‘Ice’ it is a symbol for hate. Both are connected with human nature. Relationship is one of the main theme of this poem.