Frost At Midnight

What stood out to me in this poem is Coleridge's change in word usage. His words are like a roller coaster. They go from happy to sad, calm to angry, joy to sorrow, etc. What I found interesting is how this compares to nature. You can say that nature also has it's "mood swings" which can be identified through various ways; take the weather for example - one day it's warm and sunny, and the next it's cold and rainy. Coleridge starts the poem off with strong words such as "owlet's cry", "loud", and "hark"and then moves on to calm language like "solitude", "peacefully", "calm", "meditation", and "silentness." Those two groups of words are very different, opposites in fact. The same can be with nature; an ocean can be loud and rough, while the fields can be filled with peace and tranquility. What's neat about all this is that no matter what side nature is showing, the baby is so calm and at peace. Whether it be the "redbreast that sit and sing" or the "silent icicles shining to the quiet moon, " there is a sense of security that nature provides. The pictures illustrate nature in two different ways - the first shows nature in the winter time on a mountain while the other is during the spring near a creek. You can see how different these two images are, but they are both beautiful in their own ways.