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Well, the other day in English class we were looking through our text books at some poetry and my English teacher read us this poem by Robert Frost, a poet who wrote most of his work during the time of the Cold War. I found it to be a very cool poem and I would like to share it with my readers.

Fire and Ice

Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.

Robert Frost

What I thought about when the writer spoke of fire and his taste of desire was that People want things and like fire we want and go on wanting, burning through like fire. And when he says he knows enough of hate that he thinks it would be iceI thought to myself that hate is like ice, they are both cold. When a person is cold they are numb and don't feel much, the same goes for hate, when you hate you choose not to feel and you become numb.