Frost at Midnight Samuel Coleridge By: Dzhesika Yaneva
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BIOGRAPHY Education Christ’s Hospital Jesus College, Cambridge E nlisting in the army Birth and Family 12 October 1772, England Parents Wife and kids Addivtion D epression R heumatic fever Death Psychological and physical conditions Interests
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
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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 become a true "child of nature” Divinity of Nature Childhood, Nature and Hope Environment and State of Mind
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