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Fire And Ice Annotation
The poem, Fire and Ice, describes the taste of how people think the world will end. The narrator describes his beliefs along with others thought on the topic of whether the world will end with fire or ice. For most people, they believe in the world ending in fire, although, the narrator believes in ice for the destruction of earth.
“Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice”. The first stanza describes the thoughts and feelings of others in this poem compared to how he thinks the world will end. The poem is heavily based upon opinion because he tells the thought among others. Line three and four of the poem states, “From what I’ve tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire.” The poem continues to describe the thoughts of

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