In my opinion, “Fire and Ice” is the most suitable poem  to teach for high school students among “To chinese grandmother”, “The red hat” and “ “To a daughter leaving home”. This poem is one of the most well known poem in the world. It has messages. It has some challenging vocabulary for high school students to learn. Students also can learn about how American poem is written.

In the poem “Fire and Ice”, there is a message. The poem is using metaphor. This makes the poem more effective and strong. In the poem, “Fire” means desire and “Ice” means hate. The writer tells both are great but both are also dangerous. Desire could be good things and dangerous things.  People could have desire for their dream. People also could have desire for physical satisfaction. For the “hate” it is powerful. People should be careful on ice which is means hate.

Students can learn language from the poem. The poem is simple and short so that the high school students can focus and learn better. American poem is not familiar with high school students so it is better be simple and easy like the poem. There are also some challenging vocabulary to learn for high school students. This poem is going to help students to understand American literature and English at the same time.  

There are reasons for this poem to be most famous, even though it is simple and short. I take the well known saying “simple is the best”. It is short yet powerful. The writer expresses exactly what he/she want to tell people. It has hidden strong messages which are good for high school students to learn for their lives.