Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem "Frost at Midnight" expresses his hope that his son Hartley will have a happier childhood experience nature's divinity. The poem uses symbolic language and figures of speech to connect the speaker's loneliness and state of mind to the frost outside and sounds of church bells. Coleridge hopes Hartley will grow up to truly experience nature as a "child of nature", unlike the speaker whose childhood was cut short.
3. BIOGRAPHY
Education
Christ’s Hospital
Jesus College, Cambridge
Enlisting in the army
Birth and Family
12 October 1772, England
Parents
Wife and kids
Addivtion
Depression
Rheumatic fever
Death
Psychological and
physical
conditions
Interests
4. WORKS
POEMS
Easter Holidays
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Christabel
Kubla Khan
LITERARY
CRITICISM
Biographia Literaria
CONVERSATION
POEMS
Frost at Midnight
The Eolian Harp
Fears in Solitude
Dejections: An Ode
7. Main Themes
The poem “Frost at Midnight”
expresses hope that Coleridge's son,
Hartley, would be able to experience
a childhood that his father could
not and becomea true "child of
nature”
Divinity of Nature
Childhood, Nature
and Hope
Environment and
State of Mind
8. Symbols and Figurative Language
Figurative Language
○ Apostrophe
○ Alliteration
○ Assonance
○ Consinance
○ Ceasura
○ Enjambment
○ Simile
○ Imagery
○ Personification
Symbols
○ Frost
-Sacredness; Divinity of Nature
○ Church Bells
- connection between art, religion and
environment
○ Ash
-the speaker’s mind ; loneliness
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