Compare and contrast the following two poems: Samuel Taylor Coleridge's 'Frost at Midnight' and Joanna Baillie's 'A Mother to her Waking Infant.'

... Write an essay of 1500 words, in which you compare and contrast the following two poems: Samuel Taylor Coleridge's 'Frost at Midnight' and Joanna Baillie's 'A Mother to her Waking Infant.' In comparing and contrasting the two poems, it is logical to firstly acknowledge the titles, and to think about how they shape the way we read, and how they set the readers expectations. Baillie's title of 'A Mother to her Waking Infant' is very clear and factual, and fully describes the stanzas that follow. The term of 'A Mother' is quite impersonal, and alludes to the lack of emotion conveyed in the first four stanzas. It also leaves the reader with the impression that the poet isn't necessarily speaking about her own child. In direct contrast Coleridge's title of 'Frost at Midnight' does not hint at all that it is a poem about childhood, or that Coleridge is speaking about

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