In his poem "Frost at Midnight," describe what Coleridge wants for his son, and whether there is a connection with his own life's past experiences.

In Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem, "Frost at Midnight,"
the author believes that his son will have experiences very much different than his own:
he will hear different stories (lore) and travel to places where the author has not
been.

...it
thrills my heart

With tender gladness, thus to look at
thee,

And think that thou shalt learn far other
lore,

And in far other
scenes!

This father recalls
that the only glimpse of beauty he saw growing up in a town was
what he spied between buildings: sky and stars.

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For I was reared

In
the great city, pent 'mid cloisters dim,

And saw nought
lovely but the sky and
stars.

(It is important to
remember that Coleridge was a "first-generation" Romantic poet. Something that the
Romantics wrote of often was their delight with nature: this can be
seen not only in Coleridge's work—in particular (for example) The Rime of the
Ancient Mariner, but also in Wordsworth's work, and then in the works of the
second-generation Romantic poets: Byron, Shelley and
Keats.)

Coleridge imagines the "glimpses" of nature his son
will have (and we can infer that Coleridge will be at hand to guarantee these these
"interactions" that he did not have as a child). His son will know
the uncontrollable breezes that go where they wish—"By lakes and sandy shores," and
around the crags of mountains, and "beneath the clouds." In essence, Coleridge believes
his child will learn early to speak the...

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...eternal language, which thy
God

Utters, who from eternity doth
teach

Himself in all, and all things in
himself.

God will instruct
the boy and help to shape the man he will become. In this experience, the seasons will
be a delight to the boy: the grass, the birds, the snow, and the "sun-thaw" of dawn.
This is what the author dreams for his son.

It is easy to
appreciate Coleridge's concern that his son's experience be different; if you recall, he
notes that he only ever saw what little of nature came to him while
he looked to the sky between tall buildings. His observations of nature came to him much
later, and Coleridge wishes that an appreciation of these things will grow within his
son, as the child himself grows.