The Worlds “Fire and Ice” is one of the many poems by Robert Frost. This piece is one of the better in his voluminous collections. It is a bi-level poem that compares two sets of opposing worlds. The impact that the meanings of these worlds have is distended by the understatement at the end of the piece, which is entirely reflective of the piece. The essence of this piece is in the compression of a …showed first 75 words of 2145 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2145 total…Desire has caused men to kill others for things that they may want. It leads humans to do things that are in other ways undesirable. Hate hardens a person against anything that is rational in the same way that ice hardens an object making it impenetrable. Frost incorporates an Aesopian moral to this poem by asserting that hate and desire makes people destroy in ways that would otherwise be unthinkable to a well functioning mind.