Summery of "Fire and Ice" by Robert Frost .

The poem "Fire and Ice" by Robert Lee Frost is about the way of the destruction of the world. Though the poet gives his own opinion about the destruction of the world, here the poet begins this poem by saying 'some say'. This expression raises this opinion from individual to universal.

                The poet says  that the world will be ruined either by dite or by ice. Here he uses two symbols and he links 'fire' with desire and 'ice' with hatred. Here desire means human passion and hate means human hatred. The fifth line of the poem expresses the poet's philosophy about the life-cycle. We all know everything in this world is subject to death,decay. One who is born must be died. In this poem, Frost is very much realistic and he follows the scientific idea of the world.

            Here the poet says that by 'ice' the world will be destroyed twice. The poet means to say that first time world is destructed and then the world again builds up and then again will be destroyed by ice. The human passion and human haterd, these two objects are the causes of the decay of the world. But human haterd is enough in this world to destroy this world. The word 'twice' is used to emphasize the destructive power of 'ice' which symbolizes haterd.

                   Though the poem begins with two contrary ideas, in the end of the poem, the poet says that these two opposite objects help to ruin the world. Thus the poem ends with a single thought.