Frost also uses a metaphor to compare fire to desire and ice to hate. He is referring to the lust and hatred of humanity in the world. Frost also uses some figurative language in lines three and six when he mentions desire and hate. He uses poetic diction throughout the poem. Another illustration shown in line three is connotation by his understanding of desire, and in line six when he refers to hate. It is also shown in line three when he says, “From what I’ve tasted of desire”.
This is presented by him trying to express how some people believe the world will end. The word choice Frost uses in “Fire and Ice,” is conveyed as abstract in lines one and two. Additionally, Frost also uses end-stopped lines such as at the end of lines one and two when he says, “Some say the world will end in fire / Some say in ice.” He uses a comma to continue line one into line two with a period to end line two. The only punctuation used in this poem is at the conclusion of specific lines.
Also equally important, “Fire and Ice,” is a single line stanza. This seems to be a little bit puzzling as to readers not perceiving precisely where Frost stands. In line four Frost says, “I hold with those who favor fire,” but in lines seven, eight, and nine he says, “To say that for destruction ice / Is also great / And would suffice.” It is an example of an epigram as explained by Kirszner and Mandell, “a short poem that makes a pointed comment in an unusually clear, and often witty, manner” (Kirszner and Mandell 510). The form Frost uses in this poem is a single nine-line stanza.
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