Frost at Midnight (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- First Published: 1798
- Type of Work: Lyric
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Children, Parents and children, Nature, England or English people, Fathers, Eighteenth century, Romanticism, Moon or moons, Winter, Seasons
The Poem
“Frost at Midnight” is a seventy-four-line “conversation” poem, written in blank verse paragraphs of varying lengths. In the middle of a February night, the poet is sitting alone in his cottage. (The location is Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s cottage at Nether Stowey, near Bristol.) His baby son sleeps peacefully by his side; the other members of the household have all gone to bed. The poet watches frost forming silently on the windows and hears the hooting of owls. Apart from that, everything is silent. It is so calm and quiet that it makes the poet...
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