conversation poems conversation poems group poems composed details particular life experience led poet examination nature role poetry describe conduct man obligation god nature society ask place simple appreciation nature having actively life conversation poems grouped 20th century literary critics found similarity focus style content series title devised describe verse incorporates language examining higher ideas nature morality works held common themes particular share nature man place universe explores idea life belief people connected universal relationship god joins natural beings critics disagreed poem group strongest frost midnight usually held high esteem fears generally regarded grouping 20th century literary critics poems reflections having left place retirement prison frost midnight fears conversation poem ode group usually conversation poems term coined subtitle conversation poem describe harper considered poems form blank verse fluent easy written wrote aspect apparent noting maintain middle register speech employing language capable symbolic musical language lets taken merely talk song wrote broad description works observed speaker begins description landscape aspect change aspect landscape evokes varied integral process memory thought anticipation feeling remains closely outer scene course meditation lyric speaker insight faces tragic loss comes moral decision resolves emotional problem poem rounds end began outer scene altered mood deepened understanding result intervening meditation fact describing conversation poems later works influenced essay describes literary criticism wrote credited originating called greater romantic lyric genre began conversation poems included written ode major influence modern lyrics devoted chapter poems literary analysis poet stressing form type poetry created admitted convenient misleading conversation exchange poems dozen fewer stretching met later life true inclined find conversation sided hardly serve explanation happening poems began work august engagement details future union inspired visit house serve home wedding poem infused fact took view life published edition poems subsequent collections stop working poem published expanded reworked deals themes love sex marriage formed usual manner love poem contrast second poem series reflections hints problems relationship focuses innocence poet anticipation union poem creates series themes aspects nature representing innocence order chaos establish tension poem asks reconciled images reconciled described analogous effects feelings nature terms religion describes mind desire seek divine approach similar true intellectual system universe feelings nature said receive returns traditional view god deals faith finding divine nature reflections having left place retirement soon autumn marriage left home felt guilt absence wife eventually went live family hill bristol completed composed commemorate return composed absence later return wife bristol poem published october title poem affects poetry reflections included october collection poems followed themes reflections similar set location describe relationship wife sexual desire reflection life poem represent accept current life rejection conclusion drawn land bring closer god view reflects simply exist area actively seek truth order fulfill god poem details men feel need seek truth like philosopher simply live natural state poem desires claiming truth reflect time simply enjoying nature god presence reflections differs looking problems marriage especially union world outside home poem expresses desire confinement difference worlds outside cottage overall focus relationship private public spheres engaged outside world narrator separate mankind focus devoted helping mankind contains religious political components image life abandon sensual pleasures cottage pursue path summer spent time friends including william wife time suffered accident foot burned result left property underneath lime tree lamb wife went journey version poem sent letter lines published edition lines long poem revised published annual anthology later revised edition included collection poems verse seeks discover environment friends exploring unable join poem links lime tree lamb walking separated poet connects distant friends able share common view life poem describes loneliness glad friends able experience nature able tolerate prison views merely physical intellectual frost midnight frost midnight written february based childhood friendship exposed wild beauty poem published small work containing france ode fears rewritten times seven versions printed edition contains concluding lines removed later editions narrator comes understanding nature isolated thoughts nature comfort poet remembers loneliness childhood felt isolated nature people living world strangers hope child experience easier life places similar emphasis living harmony nature poetry view different believed nature represents physical presence god word combined understanding god need understand divine order embrace fears fears written rumors french invasion spread england opposed prime minister control british government sided homeland began work poem april published small pamphlet france ode eventually printed seven times later printing removing sentiment poem critical corruption sees government displays loyalty devotion england poem operates circular pattern beginning ending introducing historically real possibility invasion england narrator announces determination protect family fellow poem emphasis simple life narrator desires return previous lifestyle conversation poem written april time wrote fears poem included joint publication discussion directed traditional association feelings bird appearance myth break tradition poem represented experience narrative interrupted mysterious female character case female wife fact separates poems series work mentions child night viewed contemplated moon later follow depiction use ode ode living apart family period intended write poem fallen love sent verse april original draft titled letter renamed published differences versions original consisted lines published lines cut emphasise moments emotional struggle personal elements removed poem published morning post october date corresponds marriage response ode conveys feelings expressed inability write appreciate nature introduced poem able turn darkness benefit accept comfort find positive aspect despair paralyzed emotions poem captures feelings expressed earlier works including exploration problematic childhood thoughts religious beliefs commemorates time stayed winter recalls read newly completed prelude wrote poem response january capture feelings friend poem portions verse printed friend wish public private nature thoughts eventually published collection poem begins themes prelude develops discussion understanding beliefs relationship nature poem self critical near manner holding poetry thoughts inferior partly believed able find bliss unable find pain discusses youthful hopes great poet ability write diminished time poem admiration ability rendered jealousy themes examines understanding nature concept life idea came reflection experiences conversation poems connected ideas deal nature understanding universe particular express ideas necessity reflections idea life narrator abandon sensual pleasures cottage nature order pursue path helping mankind continues conversation poems theme life linking surroundings walk friends went separated connects distant friends mutual experience appreciation nature frost midnight uses idea life poem describes idea life child experience countryside hoped boy child nature raised free constraints come nature fears unity mankind nature form fearing fellow times invasion idea life according best romantic joy love shared life reflections deal similar nature differ approach reflections questions right simply enjoy nature image nature themes reappears fear later poem image similarly enter world help mankind included altered motivated guilt warning message possible invasion outside forces fear seek leave location help mankind stay protector family frost midnight deal similar understanding nature ideas form basis natural education hoped son able learn nature innocent way unlike nature strong christian presence nature physical presence god word connection frost midnight emphasis private life critical response poems considered critics finest final lines chosen harper best example peculiar kind blank verse evolved natural prose artistic complicated argued conversation poem said stand equally poems high imagination certainly frost midnight lime tree quality heart essential poems quality striking effectiveness imagery poems said true greatest poems agree strength wrote poem structured conversation poems argued poem delightful conversation poems agreeing view believes beautiful conversation poems poems series received praise claiming pure example poetry conversation poem poem extravagant holmes describes beautiful conversation poem poems received watson believes fears shows new achievement return older manner evidently written white heat patriotic degradation english public opinion french wars stretching charity considered conversation poem holmes simply claims fears difficult conversation poems discussing writes beautiful final lines successful poem conversation poems blank centre pivot significant controlling idea
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