Fire and Ice a Poem by Robert Frost

In Robert Frost’s poem “Fire and Ice”, it presents an all out 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 the “lost paradise” is interpreted in a different manner. Frost’s poem is described as humorous or sardonic but there is a bit of irony in the speaker’s tone (230). Frost’s use of “natural lyrics provide a comparison with the outer scene and the psyche” (230). This meaning that the poem describes some of the general idea of hell through either fire or ice, but also presents it with the ironic undertones associated with them such as desire, hatred, passion and the idea of death. Though the poem is simple and short it presents the metaphorical downfall of the speaker in which he contrasts it to the end of the world.

For instance, the fire depiction in the poem presents the end of the world to be the general depiction of a hellish world engulfed in flames. However, the first two lines of the poem present the debate over how it w...