I read Robert Frost's "Fire and Ice" (http://www.online-literature.com/frost/744/). The speaker in the poem is Frost, and the tone of the poem is dark, and apocolyptic. The rhyme scheme goes A-A, B-B for the first two lines, and then A-B-A-B for the rest of the poem. The intention of the poet is to comment on the faults of humanity that are bringing us down as a whole. In the poem, the concept of fire is, in my opinion, supposed to represent creulty in active forms, like murder and rape, and maybe even some of the seven deadly sins, such as lust, wrath, and pride. As seen in the poem, the speaker himself has partaken in some of these activities; "From what I've tasted of desire/I hold with those who favor fire" ("Fire and Ice" Frost). Evident also is the fact that the speaker believes, from personal experince, that this 'fire', or those sins, will be the downfall of us as a whole. However, the author expresses the feeling that he "knows enough of hate" ("Fire and Ice" Frost) to know that the concept of ice is just as bad as that of fire. Moreover, I believe 'ice' resembles hatred in the sense of coldness, ignorance and apathy, which can be translated into the sins of gluttony, sloth and greed. Frost ends the poem gloomily, conveying a sense of pessimism and the self-destruction of our own kind. The questions I would ask to other readers of the text would be ; What do you feel 'fire' and 'ice' represent? and What other contexts might this poem be written in, if not a general sense of human destruction?