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Fire and Ice (poem) Poem 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. Inspiration In an anecdote he recounted in 1960 in a "Science and the Arts" presentation, prominent astronomer Harlow Shapley claims to have inspired "Fire and Ice".[2] Shapley describes an encounter he had with Robert Frost a year before the poem was published in which Frost, noting that Shapley was the astronomer of his day, asks him how the world will end. Style and structure Critiques Marveled at for its compactness, "Fire and Ice" signaled for Frost "a new style, tone, manner, [and] form".

Compression of Dante's Inferno In a 1999 article, John N. In popular culture The fantasy writer George RR Martin has said that the title of his A Song of Ice and Fire series was partly inspired by the poem.[6] References External links. 7632_bba0.jpeg (JPEG Image, 400x600 pixels) - Scaled (99. You may not be her first, her last, or her only. She loved b | Witty Profiles. You Should Date An Illiterate Girl. Date a girl who doesn’t read. Find her in the weary squalor of a Midwestern bar. Find her in the smoke, drunken sweat, and varicolored light of an upscale nightclub. Wherever you find her, find her smiling. Make sure that it lingers when the people that are talking to her look away. Engage her with unsentimental trivialities. Use pick-up lines and laugh inwardly. Let the anxious contract you’ve unwittingly written evolve slowly and uncomfortably into a relationship. Figure that you should probably get married because you will have wasted a lot of time otherwise.

Let the years pass unnoticed. Do those things, god damnit, because nothing sucks worse than a girl who reads. Do it, because a girl who reads understands syntax. Date a girl who doesn’t read because the girl who reads knows the importance of plot. Don’t date a girl who reads because girls who read are the storytellers.