High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Frost at Midnight was a poem written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in February 1798. Part of the conversation poems, the poem discusses Coleridge`s childhood experience in a negative manner and emphasizes the need to be raised in the countryside. The poem expresses hope that Coleridge`s son, Hartley, would be able to experience a childhood that he could not and become a true "child of nature". The view of nature within the poem has a strong Christian element in that Coleridge believed that nature represents a physical presence of God`s word and that the poem is steeped in Coleridge`s understanding of Neoplatonism. In terms of criticism, Frost at Midnight has been well received by critics and seen as the best of the conversation poems.