frost midnight frost midnight poem written february conversation poems poem discusses childhood experience negative manner emphasizes need raised countryside poem expresses hope son able experience childhood father true child nature view nature poem strong christian element believed nature represents physical presence god word poem understanding frost midnight received critics seen best conversation poems background frost midnight written february described aspects childhood christ hospital grammar school similar content poem rest comes experience friend provided detailed description served basis description place relationship close friendship helped rewrite poems time frost midnight later connected poems poem published small work containing poems france ode fears poem intended added edition collected poems dispute fellow writer mutual publisher altered plans poem later collected published poetry rewritten times seven different versions printed revisions edition differs final lines removed later versions removal explains copy poems lines destroy return poem poems kind length ought lie tail round head poem image early lines poem sign stranger appear poem continues discussion narrator sleeping child gentle heard deep calm fill thought lines narrator believes child experience better life great city mid dim saw lovely sky stars thou like breeze lakes sandy shores beneath ancient mountain beneath clouds image bulk lakes shores mountain lines poem concluded message hope narrator child seasons shall sweet thee summer general earth sit sing snow bare branch apple tree sun drops fall heard blast secret ministry frost shall hang silent quietly shining quiet moon lines original ending version poem described narrator child wife winter secret ministry cold shall hang silent quietly shining quiet moon like tomorrow warmth sharp keen points drops catch eye novelty suspend little soul thee shout stretch mother arms thou fly lines themes narrator comes understanding nature isolated left thoughts nature narrator remembers loneliness childhood final year christ hospital completed poem titled school exercise poem describes time school pleasant experience frost midnight experience deprived countryside quality retelling childhood experience adds supernatural descriptions common scenes youth particular church bells able promise better life gothic elements poem connect works including ballad dark fears france ode graves poem narrator expresses hope child experience life connected nature represented features typical common lake poets revered similar friend narrator poem composed later year feelings narrator child connected friend asked felt nurse presented infant ideas nature transformed basis education learn nature innocent way unlike nature christian presence nature physical presence god word understanding god emphasizes need experience divine knowledge like conversation poems frost midnight touches idea life connects mankind nature god touching themes come religious poems poem produces image life narrator child experience countryside boy child nature raised free constraints found philosophical systems produced like critical response declared original lines ending flat view probably agreed 20th century argues 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 declares poem structured conversation poems performing characteristic outward return movement time space curve memory gives poem rich emotional resonance sadness hope joy held exquisite tension believes poem delightful conversation poems believes beautiful conversation poems
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