Fire and Ice perish : die suffice : be sufficient There are many ideas about how the world will ‘end’. Do you think the world will end some day? Have you ever thought what would happen if the sun got so hot that it ‘burst’, or grew colder and colder? For Frost, what do ‘fire’ and ‘ice’ stand for?
Here are some ideas: greed avarice cruelty lust conflict fury intolerance rigidity insensitivity coldness indifference hatred What is the rhyme scheme of the poem? How does it help in bringing out the contrasting ideas in the poem?