Let Nature Be Your Teacher

If Coleridge himself is the narrator of "Frost at Midnight", then his childhood differs from Wordsworth because Coolridge explains that he grew up in a city and "saw nought lovely but the sky and stars" and Wordsworth grew up in the country around all the nature. Also, Coleridge is happy for his child in this poem because the child gets to grow up around nature instead of in the crowded city. This is the same way that Wordsworth feels for his daughter, he says in "Lines Composed Above Tintern Abbey", "thy mind shall be a mansion for all lovely forms," which shows that he also wants her to be able to enjoy nature the way he does. This shows me that both men have a love for nature and want their children to experience that same love and appreciation. They both will probably teach their children that they can learn more from nature than they can learn from books.