Fire and Ice

By: Izzy Lewis

Literature is any written work that achieves a story about life. It has at least one theme and is able to connect to one's life. In Robert Frost's poem "Fire and Ice," he states "Some say the world will end in fire, / Some say in ice." Fire and ice are both factors that are needed in a story.

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Fire is the explosion of ideas in a story. Fire, or "desire" as Frost calls it, is what makes life exciting. Ideas are what drives humans on to do new and exciting things. Without ideas, everything would be boring and life would have no meaning. Without ideas in a story, the story would lack meaning. The story needs fire.

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Not only is fire a necessary element in a story, but ice is also. Ice is the cold, hard facts about human life. One can't have ideas without having facts to back them up. Sometimes it's hard to accept the facts and only pay attention to the ideas, but the facts are also necessary to understand the story. The story needs ice.

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Fire is what starts the story and ice is what calms it down. There needs to be a balance in order for the story to work. If there is too much fire, the reader will be overwhelmed with ideas and reading it will be straining to the brain, because the reader will have to think too much. If there is too much ice, the reader will be bored with the story, because there isn't anything in it challenging to the mind. With a perfect balance of fire and ice, one will be challenged by the story but also understand the story and be able to relate it to human life.  Fire and ice together, of course, make water. With water, the ideas and facts flow easier to the readers' minds. So, if the world was going to end, it should end in both fire AND ice in order to achieve a perfect balance.

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