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'Frost at Midnight' written by Coleridge is a poem which main romantic characteristics is about the importance of childhood. He reflects on his childhood whist looking after his son. In the first stanza Coleridge is looking into his fireplace and notices something blows out of the fireplace and 'which fluttered on the grate.' This instincts an unhappy memory for him, it is a childhood memory because it is at school and this is a characteristic of romanticism. In school the 'fluttering stranger' from the fire would fascinate him because it is a piece of nature, which he finds beautiful and thrilling. The second stanza is typical of romanticism because of the images described in the poem. 'With unclosed lids, already had I dreamt of my sweet birth-place, and the old church tower.' 'On the hot Fair-day.' This line builds an image of his christening at a large church on...

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