In “Frost at Midnight,” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the poet uses the imagery of nature throughout the poem to compare the different parts of nature that is visible in the country side, to the city. For example, “This populous village! Sea, and hill, and wood,” would be the ocean, mountains, and trees that you would see in the country side (line 11), but in the city the only parts of nature you would see are the sky, and stars. Coleridge seems to be in love with nature, and because of his love for nature he wants his child to grow up in a place that offers more than just the sky and stars (line 54-58). As a child, Coleridge had an horrible experience growing up in the city. He did nothing but dream, and when he is in school, he would try to look for someone that he knows because he had nothing better to do (line 39-41). He does not want his child to go through the kind of childhood he had to go through. The experiences that his child will go through allows him to live the life that he dreamt  of., through his child. This  seems selfish in a way, but he wants to spare his child from the boredom that life in a city would bring.

Coleridge has grown to hate the city, and started to love the countryside, but would this change if he did not grow up in the city. His love towards nature makes him seem like he hates the city, which leads to the whole idea of urbanization, and how he is probably against it. In the poem he does not mention much about his childhood, but he does talk about the beauty of nature that could only be experienced outside of the city. His experiences in the city must have been a lot worst than what he has mentioned because you don’t make the decision of moving out the city just because of the boring childhood he had.

I could see how Coleridge fell in love with the environment of the countryside because it is an magnificent sight, but the city has its own kind of beauty as well. I am not convinced that being bored made him want to move out of the city.