Monday, November 10, 2008

Fire and Ice

This poem was very short and wrote by Robert Frost. I believe that he is talking about how the world will end and the people in it. I believe by Fire he means people bringing death and tragedy upon themselves through being greedy and selfish. People always want what they can't have, and that leads to problems in this world. He is also stating "From what I've tasted of desire/I hold with those who favor fire" (lines 3-4). By those lines he is saying that what he has experienced in this world from desire, whether it means people being greedy, hateful, or just wanting stuff that they should not have, that that is how this world will one day end. Our own people will destroy it, chasing there dreams of wanting to conquer and control everything in their reach.

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