Coleridge and Wordsworth.

In Coleridge’s Frost at Midnight he makes many comments about his childhood which greatly differ from Wordsworth’s childhood. Wordsworth grew up being in tune with nature and really appreciating it and going out everyday into a forest and learning from it instead of books, while Coleridge grew up in a town that he refers to as a prison, and sees school in that manner too. He calls his family, “the inmates of my cottage” and while he was at school he says he “gazed upon the bars” which are both very strong referrals to him being trapped like in a prison at his home and at his school when all the while he wanted to be outside in nature. Both Coleridge and Wordsworth wanted their children to be in touch with nature and appreciate like they as children. Especially Coleridge, knowing what it’s like to be trapped inside walls, he says “my babe shall wander like a breeze by lakes and sandy shores, beneath the crags of ancient mountain, and beneath the clouds..”. Meaning he wanted his child to be free to go where he pleased outside and in life, instead of being trapped like he felt.