Dejection: An Ode is a deeply personal and autobiographical poem of Coleridge in which he describes his spiritual and moral loss, and the loss of creative imagination. At the time of birth, nature gave him great creative and imaginative powers, but his Nature gave constant unhappiness destroyed those powers. The poet is painfully conscious of this loss.
The Eolian Harp published in 1795 has been called 'the most perfect' of Coleridge's early poems. It is one of his conversation poems. Most of the poems of this group belong to the years 1795-93, but Coleridge used the form intermittently over a period of twelve years, the last of them, To William Wordsworth being written in 1807. For Coleridge the form of a conversation poem had some attraction in his early years.
The poem The Eolian Harp addressed to Sarah Fricker whom the poet was about to marry, was composed in August, 1795 since the time of Thomson. An eolian harp was considered an indispensable possession for every poet. It was usually placed in a casement. The poets loved and valued it greatly. The music drawn from it by the breath (inspiration) of nature was identified with the natural genius of the poet.
The poem Frost at Midnight written by Coleridge is one of the finest short poems in the English language. It is much loved and much praised. The poem has been set in a very quiet and peaceful atmosphere. It is the time of midnight and the frost is fulfilling its work secretly and unhelped by the wind. The poet reflects upon the absolute stillness of the night broken only by the owlet's cry.
Frost at Midnight was written by Coleridge to celebrate the birth of his son, Hartley, at Stowey in 1798, and it was first published with Fears in Solitude and France: an Ode. The poem is written in a contemplative mood. The atmosphere, as described in the poem, is perfectly peaceful and calm and there is nothing to disturb it. This quietness of the night is maintained throughout the poem, and the poet's thoughts are also mild and gentle in a similar manner.
The Gift Outright is a patriotic poem. This poem was composed in 1936 and published in 1941, a few months later the United States entered World War II. This poem had already achieved a level of familiarity and recognition among the people, but it received special attention when Frost recited it at the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy on January 20, 1961.
Acquainted with the Night is a sonnet that appeared in the volume West-Running Brook written in 1928. It records, in the first person, the poet's sojourn in the night. The poem focuses on the quest for some kind of meaningful epiphany in a world of Lucretian indifference, impersonality and otherness, a quest that is apparently frustrated. The poet has been the one who is well-known for the night both as a nocturnal wanderer and as a sufferer.
The poem Nothing Gold Can Stay, was published in the 'Yale Review', October, 1914, and in 'New Hampshire', 1923. This is compressed piece of poem where profound idea is simply put into the childlike rhyming words. In this poem, Frost explains that nothing on earth, especially that which is perfect and beautiful, can last forever. Everything has to go for transformation and has to change. It is a natural process.
Composed in 1919, this poem was published in Harper's Magazine in December, 1920 and in 1923 in his Pulitzer Prize winning book New Hampshire. Fire and Ice is a short lyric of barely 9 lines yet full of meaning. Fire and Ice was inspired by a passage in Canto 32 of Dante's Inferno. This poem is a compression of Dante's Inferno.
The Road Not Taken is a poem by four Pulitzer Prize winner American poet Robert Frost, published in 1916 as the first poem in the collection 'Mountain Interval'. Together with 'Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening', this poem 'The Road Not Taken' is one of the most anthologized, beloved and frequently studied poem in different levels in literature classes. This poem has four stanzas of five lines with a rhyming scheme abaab.