Coleridge's poem: Frost at midnight

« – the singing redbreast suggests springtime while his hue transfers by implication to the apples on the tree to figure the ripeness of autumn.

– The frost remembers the winter season > Appreciation of Nature "This populous village !" (l.11) exclamation = admiration, enthusiasm Third verse paragraph : a real ode to nature = sort of a lyricism veil upon that part of the text - 55-60 => natural elements "mountains, clouds,lakes, shores" = accumulation => impression of richness and diversity perceptions / senses "see and hear" (l.59) CONTRARY TO CITY third verse paragraf depreciative tone "in the great city, pend mid cloisters dim" (l.53) C- Nature as the place for bring up a child idyllic innocence of childhood "peacefully" (l.7) -> not disturbed by perspectives => calm Admiration for his child BABE = a true object of attentio n: "My babe so beautiful! it thrills my heart With tender gladness, thus to look at thee" (l.49-50) A poet => apiration to suberting / to de-creation here baby is the opportunity to CREATE sth, to ENGENDER = to create a comfort NATURE appears as the frame for a childhood in Coleridge's mind Jealous of Wordsworth natural childhood C= brought in city -celebration of the cycle of season "all seasons" (l.66) => offers the possibilities of a stable equilibrium for the child Nature as the place for elevation of the mind -> intelligibility rejection of the city in the third verse paragraph (l52-53) BUT aspiration for countryside => elevation of the mind EDUCATION l.

51-52 " that you shalt learn far other lore, and in far other scenes" CITY = place for alienation COUNTRYSIDE/NATURE = elevation of spirit and mind II/ Nature as the opportunity for a raise of meditation (power Nature/ Mind) A- The effects of Nature upon Imagination Nature NURTURES imagination -> nature depiction that engenders meditation and imagination in Coleridge's mind Impression of supernatural : Sort of a gothic dimension ( => Nature => reflection on reality and unreality (supernatural) – Real/ Unreal -> world seems to be actively mimicking its own intangibility, realising an unreality paradoxically "abstrusers" "inaudible" to reduce it to an unreality "sea, hill and wood" (l.10-11) repeats itself like the owl-cry = silent village is peopled only by these non-human features => Solitude "frost" (l.1) = both present and secret -> the film is distractingly visible but not entirely real. »