Extract question of poem fire and ice robert frost
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In these lines, the poet says that there are two notions in general society about the destruction of the world. The first of these theories states that fire will cause the apocalypse to happen. That is to say, the earth’s core will heat up to an excruciatingly high temperature or due to asteroid collision which will take the temperature of Earth so high that everything on the surface will be incinerated beyond repair. The second theory says just the opposite. Instead of destruction by heat, this theory believes that the world will freeze till all the species of flora and fauna inhabiting it become extinct once and for all. Hence, this theory is based on the power of ice to obliterate living conditions on earth. The poet is aware of both these theories and will now proceed to weigh them against each other. But the apart from the visible meaning of the poetry it carries a much deeper thematic sense. Evidently Frost has equalise fire and ice with two of the darkest traits of mankind: lust and hate respectively and he says that any of them would be sufficient in bringing an end to the world.