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  • Essay / Fire and Ice, a poem by Robert Frost - 591

    In Robert Frost's poem “Fire and Ice”, he presents a total debate about the end of the world. It is clear that through the title the poem demonstrates the distinctions in which the world will either be engulfed in flames or covered in ice, but the idea of ​​"paradise lost" is interpreted in a different way. Frost's poem is described as humorous or sardonic, but there is some irony in the speaker's tone (230). Frost's use of "natural words provide a comparison to the external scene and psyche" (230). This means that the poem describes part of the general idea of ​​hell through fire or ice, but also presents it with the ironic nuances associated with it such as desire, hatred, passion and idea of ​​death. Although the poem is simple and short, it presents the speaker's metaphorical downfall in which he compares it to the end of the world. For example, the depiction of fire in the poem presents the end of the world as the general representation of a hellish world. world engulfed in flames. However, the first two lines of the poem present the debate on how it...