Frost at Midnight

Within “Frost at Midnight,” Samuel Coleridge validates the importance of self-reflection through solitude. Coleridge creates a scenic image of the world around the speaker during the time of his solitude. During his time alone, the speaker reflects about his childhood and the aspiration he has for the infant child sleeping in the cottage. The importance of solitude demonstrated in “Frost at Midnight” by the feelings the speaker has, the time intervals from present to past, and the speaker’s self-reflection during his time alone. All these specific purposes are to show how the speaker moves from being uncomfortable with solitude to being hopeful and optimistic about the opportunity he has being alone during reflection. The feelings associated…

“Frost at Midnight!". Would make any human mind wonder. On a cold night, and everyone is sound asleep. I personally myself would enjoy that peaceful moment and let my head go into deep thoughts. I would have a nice cup of cappuccino. I would think about love, how far I have come as well as my past, my childhood, family and so much more. Coleridge couldn’t have chosen a better setting and title for this poem, because I believe that nature is best discovered and embraced at night. A person can get…

In 1798 a well-known poet named Samuel Taylor Coleridge published his poem The Rime of The Ancient Mariner. The poem was contained in a poem collage by Coleridge and William Wordsworth called the Lyrical Ballads. Coleridge is known for the Romantic influence in his writings: “Coleridge achieved wonder by the frank violation of natural laws, impressing upon readers a sense of occult powers and unknown modes of being” (“The Romantic Period: Topics.” The Norton Anthology of English Literature).…

Pieces of work which involve the interplay of imagination and the human experience often are texts from the Romantic period. The Romantic period occurred from the late 18th to the early 19th centuries. It was a time of development in the arts and ways of thinking, with paradigms such as the imagination and placing an emphasis on the human experience and individuals leading both the creation and the content of many prolific pieces of work including Frankenstein (1818) by Mary Shelly, The Rime of…

Once every year at Grand Valley State University, students, faculty and members of the surrounding community unite to walk for twelve hours, from sunset to dawn. Together, they become a reminder to anyone who has ever felt the pain of cancer in their lives, that they are not alone in their fight, and that someone celebrates their life. This event, Relay for Life, creates an unparalleled environment for community involvement at Grand Valley and, for one night brings people together to make a…

December 24th isn’t just Christmas Eve, it’s also National Egg Nog Day. Egg Nog is a chilled, sweetened, dairy-based beverage traditionally made with milk or cream, sugar, whipped eggs, and sometimes rum, bourbon or brandy is added too. It is a beverage severed around the holiday season, it can usually be found on store shelfs a little before Thanksgiving but only is available until New Years. There are a few ideas of where egg nog first came about, but it is sort of a mystery. The name “egg…

Advanced Placement Literature SAMPLE 2 The sonnet “Acquainted With The Night” by Robert Frost was written in the time closer to our own and through describing a lonely walk at midnight, alludes to the sorrowness and darkness of heart of a man who has suffered significant loss and is trying to reconcile with the tragedy at heart. As the poem starts and ends with the sentence mentioning being “acquainted with the night”, it leads the audience to visualize a peaceful yet eerily quiet night,…

I choose the songs “Walkin’ After Midnight” by Patsy Cline (1957), “Darkest Valley” by Group 1 Crew (2012), and “Who I Am Hates Who I’ve Been” by Relient K (2004). I choose these three pieces because they are all something that I listen to regularly and they demonstrate a variety of styles in music. Patsy Cline was an iconic female country singer that won awards at the Deejay Convention, won Billboard’s “Most Promising Country & Western Female Artist,” and Music Vendor’s “Greatest Achievement…

In “The Lonely Land”, A.J.M Smith says “This is a beauty/of dissonance,/this resonance” (23-25). By this quote, he means that even though the land is not perfect, there is something to be found under imperfection such as something beautiful. Dumont repeats, “this land is not” three times throughout the poem to make sure the readers understand that the land is not to be taken advantage of. In both of the poems, the land is more than just a place to live. “Not Just a Platform for My Dance”…

The “Ins and Outs” of “Out, Out---“ In the poem “Out, Out---“ by Robert Frost the title can immediately foreshadow the poems events. The words “Out, Out” is what the readers first read, and by the end of the story will realize why Robert Frost may have titled it that way. Robert Frost was born in San Francisco on March 26h in the year 1874. Frost started to become interested in poetry during high school and Harvard, even though he never officially received his college degree. Frost later…