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Also in "Fire and Ice" Frost says that "But if I had to parish twice/I think I know enough of hate/To say that for destruction ice/Is also great/And would suffice" (lines 5-9). What Frost is saying with this part of the poem is that if he could die twice he then choose the ice because he knows the hate that ice is equated with. When someone feels hate there is a general feeling of coldness or "Ice". "Frost is saying that he could stand dying through the coldness of hate."

When I first read this poem, I also was reading the bible. I asked my father, an ordained pastor, what he thought of the poem and he gave me his two points of view. The view that stood out the most was the Biblical point of view. In the Bible it is told that God destroyed Earth with water the first time he came to get his people (the story of Noah's Ark). Since ice is a form of water, my dad, related the two to each other. In the Bible, the book of Revelations also say that the next time that God......

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