Ciara Mccabe (9/29/2007 10:17:00 AM)
People have both passion and apathy, which is a form of hatred. Fire is the impulse that people might have to change things either to their own benefit or the good of everybody, ice is indifference and numbness. Frost had religious belief, but he was conflicted, and that might explain why he chooses how the world would end, but holds back from being that hopeful. In another poem he talks about how a little boy died and nobody cared, and how it didn't seem to matter in the grand scheme of things so I guess that he might be saying here that the cosmos is indifferent or icy. |