Fire and Ice (recreated version)

Not everyone says the world will end in fire
Perhaps not even in ice.
I haven’t tasted any of my desires yet
I cannot be bias, it will not look nice.
But if it never perishes at all, not even once.
I would never know how much love,
Does it need for destructing fire or ice
Then probably both could be compared in terms of greatness
If it happens, insufficiency would solely prevail, in infinite.

~Navaparna

Day 3 of Na/GloPoWriMo 2023.

Prompt 3 source: https://www.napowrimo.net/poets-start-your-engines/
Here’s our prompt for the day (optional, as always). Find a shortish poem that you like, and rewrite each line, replacing each word (or as many words as you can) with words that mean the opposite. For example, you might turn “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” to “I won’t contrast you with a winter’s night.” Your first draft of this kind of “opposite” poem will likely need a little polishing, but this is a fun way to respond to a poem you like, while also learning how that poem’s rhetorical strategies really work. (It’s sort of like taking a radio apart and putting it back together, but for poetry).

For today’s prompt, I have chosen Robert Frost’s Fire and Ice. I have tried something very new and I hope you all will like it! I remember reading this Robert Frost’s poem back in class 10. Oh how I enjoyed reading poems that rhyme and are easy to understand during the schooldays unlike the English Literature that I have to study for my degree. Ahhh too much struggle understanding old complicated English with no literal sense lol. Robert Frost’s poems are simple to understand because they are mostly based upon daily activities and life. Anyway I love reading and composing poems so give it a read:))

Here is the 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.

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