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Kubla Khan
If there's a poem that can be said to be inspired, it's Coleridge's "Kubla Khan." He claimed that it was composed one night after an opium-induced dream. He also claimed, somewhat less fancifully,...
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Kubla Khan
Kubla Khan, one of Coleridge's most famous poems, came to him in a dream. Adding an extra layer to the dreamy history of the poem, Coleridge had taken opium before he fell asleep. When he awoke,...
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"Kubla Khan" is a fine example of romantic poetry. It embodies all the various themes one associates with that literary movement. It is a work of heightened imagination; its vision is dreamy and...
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Lines 25-30 describe the power of the waters of the river that flows through Xanadu. While the opening lines of the poem celebrate Xanadu as a human creation, this passage celebrate the creations...
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In those lines and elsewhere in the poem, we're meant to imagine a strange and lush landscape, an otherworldly one in which the very ground seems to pant exuberantly. For that reason, it's...
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This is a poem that is famous for being actually about the creative process of writing itself, as modelled in the action of Kubla Khan in creating his famous "pleasure dome." Note the way in which...
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Perhaps the most dramatic and meaningful extended gloss in the 1834 version (first printed in the 1817 version in Sybelline Leaves) of Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner relates to lines...
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Many argue that this is actually a poem about artistic creation, and that the creation of the "pleasure dome" is a thinly-veiled allegory of the creation of art and poetry itself. Note how the poem...
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"Kubla Khan" is a fragment because the author plainly stated to friends that there was more, but it could not be written down because it was lost to a business sales call. Coleridge had taken a...
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The person who drank "the milk of paradise" is the person who is the subject of the poem: Kubla Khan. The reader should beware because Khan is the great and mighty. The fact that he...
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The three characteristics of Romantic poetry that are most apparent in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Kubla Khan" are strong senses and emotions, awe of nature, and the importance of imagination....
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem "Kubla Kahn" is named after a real Mongolian general who conquered China and lived on an elegant estate. This reference is highly significant for a couple of reasons....
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Kubla Khan
The role of the imagination is crucial in "Kubla Khan." It is a fine example of Romantic poetry and embodies all the various themes one associates with that literary movement. It is a work of...
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I memorized Coleridge’s poem “Kublai Khan” for a 9th grade English course; some 25 years later, I can still recite it, even if I occasionally miss a line or two. I still don’t fully understand how...
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"Kubla Khan" depicts a mythical palace, or "pleasure dome" constructed by Kubla Khan, a real historical figure, in an exotic location known as Xanadu. The poem's tone is dream-like, and indeed...
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You must be thinking of another poem. Coleridge's "Kubla Khan" has nothing to do with the underworld or venturing to the dark world beneath. As has already been mentioned in answers to a...
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Kubla Khan
In "Kubla Khan" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, there is a parallel between the world of imagination and paradise. For many cultures, especially earlier ones where the majority of people struggled to...
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Coleridge's "Kubla Khan" is an allegory of the creative process that bubbles up beneath the surface inside those people who have been touched by the deeper creative and imaginative muse of poetic...
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Kubla Khan
"Kubla Khan" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge is a poem in which the speaker has a vision primarily of a mystical place called Xanadu, the "pleasure dome" of the ruthless warrior, Kubla Khan. Because the...
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The numerous oxymorons that Samuel Taylor Coleridge employs in "Kubla Khan" emphasize the distinction between the terrestrial or mundane realms and the sacred realms (both heavenly and infernal)....
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem “Kubla Khan” uses a wide variety of literary devices, including alliteration, assonance, consonance, and onomatopoeia. Alliteration, or the repetition of the same...
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The rhyme scheme of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem “Kubla Khan” is highly irregular and unpredictable and follows no obvious pattern. Consider, for example, the first thirty-six lines of the poem,...
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"Kubla Khan" is rich in words and images that appeal to the senses. "Incense bearing trees" arouse the reader's sense of smell. The "shadow of the dome of pleasure" that "floated midway on the...
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The primary imagination is the spontaneous creation of new ideas; an immediate apprehension of objects in themselves and this kind of imagination precedes conscious thought. It is organic, but not...
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A simple answer to how it is a romantic poem is to state the poem is written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. He, along with William Wordsworth, is one of the most famous Romantic authors. He and...
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge's uses of diction and imagery transforms his poem "Kubla Khan" into an allegory for imagination. The first stanza introduces the setting of the poem and concept of the...
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Kubla Khan" is often thought to be a dream poem, and for good reason. A short, descriptive line before the beginning of the poem describes it as "a vision in a dream,"...
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This poem was actually the result of an opium-inspired vision of Coleridge that he experienced, then tried to write down, but was interrupted half way through, and forgot the rest. The poem is all...
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I find your question highly insightful, because on the one hand this poem seems to represent a highly vivid yet incomprehensible dream which really defies explanation. Thus one view to take when...
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You unfortunately asked multiple questions which is against enotes regulations, so I have been forced to edit your question down to focus on the treatment of nature in this unforgettable poem....
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"Kubla Khan" is an unfinished narrative poem by Samuel Coleridge. Its said that the poem came to him in a vision, but that he was unable to finish it before the vision vanished. Its based...
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Though I can't write the essay for you, I can give you ideas about what you should focus on. First of all, you should note that, while Coleridge is writing a poem about an exotic location, he's...
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I suppose it can be described as incoherent. Its various parts don't seem to have much to do with one another and the whole is difficult, if not impossible, to picture. He switched from a...
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"Kubla Khan," by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, is a poem about the summer city of Xanadu (Shangdu). Coleridge was inspired to write the poem after an experience with opium, as well as his reading of...
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Kubla Khan
In "Kubla Khan" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the relationship of dreams and creation in Kubla Khan’s construction of his pleasure dome is founded in Coleridge's theory of the imagination. His...
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This is an excellent question to think about in relation to this poem. Of course, as I am sure you are no doubt aware, the vision that this poem was trying to recapture or recreate was a dream that...
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This question of course goes to the very heart of the theme of the poem. Many critics regard this poem as being about the process of artistic imagination and how we can achieve incredible things...
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Marianne Moore famously stated that poetry was composed of 'imaginary gardens with real toads in them`. Like Moore`s imaginary garden or Tennyson`s Palace of Art, the pleasure dome of Kubla Khan...
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The first, italicized words after the title of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem “Kubla Khan” call attention to the fragmentary status of that work: “Or, a vision in a dream. A Fragment.”This...
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This is a rather interesting question to consider. I would begin answering it by focusing on the intense way in which Coleridge presents us with a poem that emerges from his imagination and feeling...
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Coleridge's poem expresses a very dreamy, imaginative vision that is characteristic of the Romantic emphasis on individualism and the importance of one person's unique perceptions. Coleridge...
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This is certainly a rather confusing poem in lots of ways, as it defies any kind of meaning that we would try to impose on it because of its fantastical nature, so I am not surprised you are...
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This poem is not very easy to summarize because it is not really about anything -- it doesn't have a plot. The great majority of the poem is just a description of the "pleasure dome" that Kubla...
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Alhough Samuel Taylor Coleridge's notes about the composition of "Kubla Khan" present it as a simple description of a vision, manuscript scholarship suggests that whatever the inspiration for the...
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See my answer to this question at the link below: http://www.enotes.com/kubla-khan/q-and-a/what-does-underworld-symbolize-19907
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Pictorial qualities, in regard to literature, is otherwise known as imagery. Imagery is the use of the author's language meant to allow a reader to create a mental image of what is being described....
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The first stanza offers us serene images of Xanadu with its "pleasure dome," "gardens bright" and "many an incense-bearing tree," but in stanza two the tone changes as we meet the violence of the...
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Many critics view this poem as an allegory about the process of creating art: just as Kubla Khan creates his pleasure dome and his earthy paradise by imposing his will on nature, reflecting...
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge based the poem “Kubla Khan” on an opium induced dream. This is evident from the otherworldly setting of the poem. The speaker of the poem remains unnamed but describes the...
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I would suggest that the concept of the dream or subjective vision is something that lies at the heart of the Coleridge poem. This is the primary representation of Romanticism. The idea of a...
