Many authors and poets express certain symbolic meanings behind their works. Such is the case with the works of Robert Frost. In the many poems of Frost, there are dark and pessimistic aspects that are present in him poems. Many regard that critics have overlooked at this dark side of Frost's poesy. Pain and tragedy are a few aspects he uses in his poems, like Out, Out-, and Fire and Ice among a few.

Frost points out pessimistic aspects in his poetry. Most of his works do have a dark side and negative feeling. I the poem Fire and Ice, Frost tells about how the world will end. He believes it will end in fire. The symbolism in this poem tends to insinuate Frost's dark views of the world. Although he agrees, in the poem, that fire will end the world, he also says "that for destruction ice...