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I think that fire represents intense
passion and emotion, and ice contrasts that representing no emotion. Saying that the world would end in fire means that hate
would become so intense that everyone would hate or fight each other to death. In
that sense the world would end with everyone in a big war. Contrasting that, the world would also end if there was a lack
of emotion, or by ice. If the world was in this ice state it would be sucked dry of emotions and become robotic. With no feelings and emotions there is no point in living and the world would die.
I think in this poem that Fire and Ice each represent something to the author.
Although he doesn't tell us specifically what each of them mean, he sees them in the world around us. They could be qualities
in people, war, or pretty much anything that Robert Frost wants them to be. I believe that he is saying these two things that
he sees, are both very hazardous and potentially destructive. They both have the capability to destroy either society or the
literal world.
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