【正确答案】正确答案：I think that the natural world will eventually end someday. It will end when the desire of mankind exceeds how much the earth can offer.

【正确答案】正确答案：Here, fire is associated with desire, a consuming, burning emotion. By pairing fire and desire, Frost suggests that desire can cause as much damage as fire can, and it may be one of the causes of the world"s end. Some of the desires he is referring to are up for interpretation, but perhaps desire for power, money, or status could cause the downfall of people. Maybe having too many desires and not being content will lead to problems, as well. Likely, he means that these desires will lead to situations that humans cannot get out of, and they will bring upon the humans" demise. Ice is associated with hate, which, according to Frost, can be just as destructive as fire(or desire). Hate, certainly, can be a destructive force, and it seems to be suggested here that humans" hate for one another can lead to the downfall of the earth.

【正确答案】正确答案：Only nine lines long, this little poem is a brilliant example of Frost"s concisely ironic literary style. The poem varies between two meter lengths(either eight syllables or four syllables)and uses three sets of interwoven rhymes, based on -ire, -ice, and -ate. In the first two lines of the poem, Frost creates a clear dichotomy between fire and ice and the two groups of people that believe in each element. By using the term "some" instead of "I" or "an individual," Frost asserts that the distinction between the two elements is a universal truth. In addition to the unavoidable contradiction between fire and ice, these first lines also outline the claim that the world will end as a direct result of one of these elements. Within this metaphorical view of the two elements, the " world" can be recognized as a metaphor for a relationship. Too much fire and passion can quickly consume a relationship, while cold indifference and hate can be equally destructive. Although the first two lines of the poem insist that there can only be a single choice between fire and ice, the narrator undercuts this requirement by acknowledging that both elements could successfully destroy the world. Moreover, the fact that he has had personal experience with both reveals that fire and ice are not mutually exclusive. In fact, though the narrator first concludes that the world will end in fire, he ultimately admits that the world could just as easily end in ice; fire and ice, it seems, are strikingly similar.