A Literary Analysis and a Comparison of Fire and Ice and Its Antithesis New Hampshire (3080 words, 13 pages)
Jeffrey MeyersThe concise, laconic, perfect and perfectly savage "Fire and Ice," theantithesis of the long-winded "New Hampshire," belongs with the apocalyptic"Once by the Pacific." The alternatives in the title represent passion andhatred, two ways of destroying the world. The poem was inspired by a passage in Canto 32of Dante's Inferno, ...
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