Question

3- Write the central idea of the poem Fire and Ice.​

Answer 1

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Ostensibly, the poem "Fire and Ice" by Robert Frost is about the hypothetical end of the world, with the speaker asserting that it will be destroyed either by fire or by ice. One could argue, though, that the central idea of this poem is that fire and ice are equally destructive, in their own ways.

We can also look at what fire and ice represent within this poem: the speaker says he "holds with those that favor fire" because of "what I've tasted of desire." Fire, then, here represents burning passion; meanwhile, ice is, in his view, also sufficiently destructive to destroy the world, a view he bases on knowing "enough of hate." So, if hate and passion are both extremely destructive forces, we might infer that what seem to be at first polar opposites (fire and ice) are actually far more similar than they are different. It does not matter how a thing is destroyed, it only matters that it is destroyed.