"Frost At Midnight", by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Frost at Midnight is another of Coleridges most famous colloquy poems. In it, through musing on some peasanthood memories fit(p) off by the softly within his cottage, Coleridge partly muses on those psychological states that produce poetry. Hence, it is another perfect exemplar of an notional journey - and, once more, it is one which eventually broadens his own understanding of the world. The relegate analysis takes you carefully through the poem. As you read it, infer about how it shows the journey of Coleridges consciousness. The Frost performs its secret ministry (l.1) Here Coleridge establishes an rail bourn of a magical, quasi-religious process at work in the artless natural act of the frost falling outside. The line as well implies a strong energy at work - in spite of this palpate of energy, it is silence that is to be the most overwhelming sense in the poem. Unhelped by all wind. (l.2) The feeling of extreme unfeelingness is built up, broken save by th e cry of the owlet - a cry which Coleridge uses to draw the indorser into the poem, with the direct address of hark, again! (l.3) From here, in the typically systolic movement, Coleridge then moves his worry from outside, and we con as he moves his attention inward, that so he himself is inside a cottage (l.

4) and that the explanation of the outside world has been a piece of imagination. Continuing the constricting focus, Coleridge then focuses his attention on himself alone (l.5), and then again outward somewhat onto a sleeping child: My cradled child slumbers peacefully (l.7). The innocence of the cradled inf ant stands in opposition to the intimately ! sinister secretiveness of the beginning line. The condition that dominates the poem at this point is that of extreme quiet and stillness: Tis calm indeed! so calm, that it... If you want to communicate a full essay, send it on our website: BestEssayCheap.com

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