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Fire And Ice
Fire and ice

The world could possibly end in two ways. The author, if he had to perish twice would like to try both.

Fire is desire and I think ice is equated to hate. I don't think he necessarily thinks one has a greater destructive power than the other, but that his first choice would be fire/desire. This is because I think that the fire represents love. Both fire/desire and ice/hate can be extremes of emotions and the elements. Do you find it interesting that his last name is Frost?

I think the poem is about both, and human relationships like fire and ice have the power to and can be equally effective at destroying.

It s hard to pick just one line as the most important, but I guess it would have to be "from what I've tasted
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