ICE’s attack on immigrants brings to mind Frost’s “Fire and Ice,” O’Neill’s “The Ice Man Cometh,” Stevens’s “The Emperor of Ice Cream,” and Niemöller’s “First They Came.”
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The ICEman Cometh
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The World Will End in Fire AND Ice
With extreme climate, the world in likely to end (to cite Robert Frost) in fire AND ice.
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Ragnarok, an Extreme Weather Event
Gaiman’s account of the Norse apocalypse Ragnarok comes close to describing a world destroyed by climate change.
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The World Will End in Fire AND Ice
When Frost wrote, “Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice,” it now appears (judging by Australia and Greenland) that everyone is right.
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This Is the Way the World Ends
Robert Frost’s “Fire and Ice” reflects upon how the world will end. Recent news of melting Antarctic glaciers says we can expect fire and ice to both play a role.
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