Explication On Fire And Ice

Part I of Essay
If you had a choice on how the world would end, what would you choose? Would your choice to be go painfully but fast? Perhaps you would rather it be so slow and painless you do not even realize it is happening? That’s what I believe Robert Frost’s poem Fire a ....

Part II of Essay
.... over with fast, but the intense pain might not make it worth it. For the world to end in ice, seems to present the image of a slower, numbing effect. I feel he uses ice to represent a slow, almost unnoticeable change that eventually causes the destruction of mankind. Fire, instantaneous combustion of an object. Frost uses fire to represent an ending with incredible speed and unimaginable pain. The quote, “From what I’ve tasted of desire” seems to represent the tendency of people to be impatient. The way many people ....