Fire and Ice By Robert Frost Time of Writing and Publishing : 1920 Back drop: Post World War I (1914-1918). Naturally the poet experienced the devastation and witnessed death of millions. According to Frost’s biographers the poem was Inspired by- i. Frost's experience of WW-I ii.Dante’s Inferno (Please check a pic of Dante's Hell from internet) ii. Frost’s interview with an Astronomer named Harlow Shapley Frost was told by Harlow Shapely that the sun would explode to bring end to the world .Otherwise, Earth will move into space, gradually freezing. Furthermore, having witnessed the greatest war in history, World War I, Frost, probably, h...