Great Regulars: 'Frost at Midnight' by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

depicts the speaker sitting alone in his cottage at midnight. Immediately, his Romantic sensibility is obvious. The opening lines, "The frost performs its secret ministry/Unhelped by any wind," personify the frost as a Minister of Religion, executing his mysterious and sacred duties, implying the belief that God is embodied in Nature. This view, known as Pantheism, was shared by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and his fellow Romantic poets.

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