Question

Write the moral of the fire and ice

Answer 1

The poet talks about the two different beliefs regarding end of this world. He says that he is in the favour of those who say this world will end in fire as he has seen the effect and result of uncontrolled and unending desires. He finds the human desires same as fire in its nature. On the other hand, the second belief tells that ice issufficient for destroying this world and the poet compares the nature of ice with hatred. As ice can make a part of body numb with itsprolonged contact like hatred can also give numbness to our mind and thoughts and make us insensitive and cruel.
The speaker brings us into the middle of an argument between people who think the world will come to a fiery end and people who think the world will freeze. He could be talking about the literal end of the world, but he's also talking about the power that human beings have to harm or "destroy" one another.
The speaker's experience with romantic desirehas taught him that passionate or "hot"emotions like love and lust would probably havethe power to turn the earth into a big fireball.But he has also experienced the other extreme,and he knows that colder emotions like hatehave great destructive power. Love gets all thepublicity, but hate is the silent killer. It may nothave the same grandeur[2] as the fireballending, but it'll do the trick.