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Fire and Ice
Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.
~ Robert Frost
Or as Lucy goes around asking all of her friends
in one of my favorite Peanuts Cartoons:
"Shall I put you down for a HEADACHE or a STOMACHACHE?"
Frost Poems on Previous Posts
Nothing Gold Can Stay
Mending Wall
The Gift Outright
Departmental
Christmas Trees
After Apple - Picking & Gathering Leaves
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Christmas Trees & Apple - Picking & Gathering Leaves
A Time to Talk
Well, now that I look at it, I guess that Frost poem is more like Doom or Doom.
ReplyDeleteKyle Bowen writes: "Great choice Kitti - in this context, maybe the poem suggests that the dawn we desire represents an end for "some" while destruction by ice is a certain doom stemming from "hate" or a frozen state of change? In other words, dawn is doom for those without the desire to change."
ReplyDeletehttps://www.facebook.com/gerry.mccartney/posts/10106748488736408
Charlie Brown: "I keep having these tiny self doubts . . .
ReplyDeletedo you think this is wrong?"
Lucy: "Of course it's wrong, Charlie Brown . . . "
see also:
http://dailykitticarriker.blogspot.com/2011/02/prognosticators-dilemma.html
and: http://dailykitticarriker.blogspot.com/2010/04/like-little-gnome.html