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What is the theme of "fire and ice" by Robert frost?

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The theme is the destuctive potential
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The theme of Robert Frost's poem Fire and Ice is the destructive potential of hatred and desire of human behavior.

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Robert Frost's poem "Fire and Ice" points out the harm of man's acts, how they are agents of their own destruction. He compares desire to "fire" and hate to "ice", with the physical forces of "fire" and "ice" representing both. Some interpretations are also based on the destructive nature of nuclear arms. the use f these opposing forces in the same vein is metaphoric of the dual nature of man, the good and the bad and the destruction it is capable of.

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