Fire and Ice (Robert Frost)

Ah right, poetry. This thing is manual! Okay, so today's poem/poet is (drum roll please) Fire and Ice by Robert Frost.

Who doesn't love this poem. It's short. It's clever. It's truth-making. And it rhymes. What a clever, talented fellow Frost was.

And how staid, how New-England! The poem talks about the end of the world and yet it ends, not with a bang or a crash, but with the modest assessment: "ice/Is also great/ And would suffice."

Favorite line: "But if it had to perish twice,/I think I know enough of hate/To say that for destruction ice/Is also great"