... and the end of the world. In the first two lines, "Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice."" From this, one can interpret this line as Robert Frost's opinion on how the world would end. In the Bible, the world is supposed to be consumed in an inferno when the prophecy of the second ... coming of Christ is fulfilled. Frost would later relate fire with the human emotion; desire. This comparison hints that Frost views desire as ... a fire that consumes and destroys. "I think I know enough of hate/to say that for destruction ice is also great,""(Line 6-7) When Frost says the ....

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... fixed form type of poem that is set into six stanzas and contains 19 lines. These lines can be divided into the stanzas in anyway. The rhyme scheme is the last word in the first line and the second line of each subsequent stanza. Dylan Thomas's poem "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night" on page 895 ... ideas outside of the written work to imply some meaning upon the work. It is used more for the cultured and upper class. An example of an allusion is in T. S. Eliot's poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" on pages 1068-1072. Eliot uses an allusion in the epigraph and cites Dante's "...

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