Robert Frost Poem? ?

Question

Fire and Ice

Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.

Robert Frost

This is my interpretation:
Robert Frost is twisting an age old question of how the world will end,
with human relationships. “Some say the world will end in fire, / some say
in ice.” As we read through the poem, though it is short, it answers more
than just the obvious question posed; it tells us of the author’s feelings
towards relationships.
On the outside, Frost is examining what will bring the world’s demise, but
underneath he is describing a relationship. “From what I’ve tasted of
desire / I hold with those who favor fire.” Fire would certainly be able to
destroy the world in his opinion; but at the same time he is saying he has
come to know love, and it is covetable.
But he goes on to say that ice would also be able to destroy the world,
that coldness would be a sufficient end. “To say that for destruction ice /
is also great / and would suffice.” So he never really answers the question
of how the world will end, and that is appropriate when you think about it
because no one really knows for sure. But as I said this poem isn’t just
about answering some arcane uncertainty, it’s about his feelings toward
relationships.
This is a man who has seen love and knows the upside of it, the power of
it (“I hold with those who favor fire”). But he has been hurt and he has
seen both sides of passion, passionate love and passionate hate (“I think I
know enough of hate”), and if he had to go through the pain of losing
someone twice, he would choose not to love at all (“But if it had to perish
twice / To say that for destruction ice / is also great / And would
suffice”).
Summarized in one simple line: Frost would rather not love at all, than to
have loved and lost. There’s an underlying tone here, not how the world
will end – but that it will end. Relationships will end – and to a larger
extent life will end. And Frost is simply saying that we will all come to
our end eventually; whether we meet that end after a passionate marriage
that ended badly or a life of solitude devoid of much joy or sorry, we will
end – and maybe the latter of the two is good enough.

Any Interpretations of your own?
Please Explain and use evidence from the poem. :D

Answer 1

I wish I could give a deep answer out of honesty, but after reading the poem and your input, I realized that maybe I'm not meant to be that poetic, or I've lost alot of me and became shallow in certain ways of poetry to be able to interpret a diversive poem like that one the way you we able to. The only thing deep I got out of it maybe(before reading your input) was that Frost seemed to desire one way and then after recalling to a hate he has seen and felt(I thought just from people in general) decided a more hardened approach in the end if it all had to come to pass again. I agree with your interpretation and think you might have hit it right on.

Answer 2

The Bearer of Evil Tidings The bearer of evil tidings, while he became into midway there, Remembered that evil tidings have been a unfavourable subject to undergo. So while he got here to the parting the place one street further approximately the throne And one went off to the mountains And into the wild unknown, He took the only to the mountains. He ran in the process the Vale of Cashmere, He ran in the process the rhodendrons, till ultimately he got here to the land of Pamir. And there in a precipice valley a woman of his age he met Took him abode to her bower Or he might desire to be working yet. She taught him the tribe's faith: How, a while and a while considering that, A princess en course from China To marry a Persian prince were discovered with infant; and her military Had come to a bothered halt. And nonetheless a god became into the daddy and no-one else became into at fault, It had appeared discreet to stay there And neither go on nor return. so as that they stayed and declared a village There interior the land of the Yak. And the infant that got here of the princess familiar a royal line, And his mandates have been given heed to because of the fact he became into born divine. And that became into why there have been human beings On one Himalayan shelf: And the bearer of evil tidings desperate to stay there himself. a minimum of he had this in undemanding With the race he chosen to undertake: that they had the two certainly one of them had their motives For battling the place that they had stopped. As for his evil tidings, Belshazzar's overthrow, Why hurry to tell Belshazzar What quickly sufficient he might understand?

Answer 3

wow. that interpretation was amazing. That is exactly how i see it, and this is on eof my favorite poems :]