As Samuel Taylor Coleridge is considered one of the founding fathers of the Romanticism movement, his poems reflect the many aspects of Romanticism. “Frost at Midnight” is an excellent example of mysticism. Mysticism is the belief that nature is directly connected to the spiritual world, and therefore spiritual revelations can arise from reflection on nature. In the poem the narrator does not have a single encounter with nature that leads him to a revelation. He notices nature in his current environment, which prompts him to reflect on his childhood and how the lack of nature affected him. The first lines call attention to the frost forming on the window and the narrator hears the hoot of an owl. This is our narrator's first encounter with nature and thus begins his departure into a meditative state, in which he “contemplates the natural world outside the cottage, with the ocean, the forests and the hills” (Constantakis). His attention is brought back to the dying fire, which he then confronts. He states that he and fire are similar "because he also sees his own thoughts as fluctuating and inconsistent" (Constantakis). The low flames of the fire are called 'strangers' in English folklore and "were thought to foreshadow the coming of fire". an absent friend” (Constantakis). The connection made in the first stanza between the speaker and the fire is significant because it leads the speaker to remember when these "strangers" visited him as a child. He spent day and night staring at the fire, “as if he were studying a book” (Constantakis). His heart would leap if the door opened, because a small part of him hoped it was "a stranger in the form of a citizen, an aunt, or his sister" (Constantakis). This reflects another romantic ideal, in which the relationship between man and man is just as important as the relationship between man and nature, or between man and beast.