Robert Frost's "Fire and Ice"

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The simple poem, "Fire and Ice" by Robert Frost, has a variety of interpretations ranging from the astronomical and eschatological, to the personal, to the biblical and apocalyptic, to the philosophical. This paper examines some of the interpretations that have been given to this famous poem.

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"While perspicacious allusions to bangs and whimpers in this poem would require profound psychic powers since Eliott had yet to produce The Hollow Men, or even The Wasteland, for that matter, with its own treatments of Fire and Ice, one need not be able to read the future to be able to predict the type of poetry that Mr. Eliott and Mr.Pound and those of their school would create in the future. Both the length and the tenor of Fire and Ice are antithetical to the elaborate styles of either adversary while the content is obviously as deep and intellectual as anything that flowed from their pens."

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