Kubla kahn
Stephanie Green
Compare and analyse “just back: into the Mongolian nothingness” and “Kubla Khun” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
“Kubla Khan” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge is a poem about the creative powers of the poetic mind. Through the use of vivid imagery Coleridge reproduces a paradise-like vision of the landscape and kingdom created by Kubla Khan. Whereas “just back: into the Mongolian nothingness” is a travel article. However it’s not the usual type of travel writing you would expect, as it’s not really persuasive.
The poem changes to the 1st person narrative and the speaker then attempts to recreate a vision he saw. Through the description of the visions of Kubla Khan’s palace and the speaker’s visions the poem tells of the creation of an enchanting beautiful world as the result of power of human imagination. Similarly the article has a sense of first person throughout, with some moments when the sense of first person isn’t there as the writer uses “we” more frequently than “I”, until the end paragraph.
Another similarity is the references to nature. Coleridge uses nature in “Kubla Khun” in contrasting way “blossomed” and “bright” then to “earth” and “forests” this gives a contrast of feelings as the reader feels happy with the tune of “bright” and “blossomed” whereas the use of “forest” and “earth” give a sad tone, this is because you see darkness when you think of earth and forest whereas you think of colourful things when you read bright and blossomed. However in “just back: into the Mongolian nothingness” nature is used in a way that makes you feel it’s there way of surviving “we see occasional goats, sheep and camels; the flicker of a rodent; and we catch sight of a distant vultures. And there is a lot of sky, sand and nothingness”. The article makes you feel like the nature they see is the thing that has kept them carrying on.
Coleridge in “Kubla Kham” conveys his imagination by using language, the vocabulary used by Coleridge is of great
Compare and analyse “just back: into the Mongolian nothingness” and “Kubla Khun” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
“Kubla Khan” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge is a poem about the creative powers of the poetic mind. Through the use of vivid imagery Coleridge reproduces a paradise-like vision of the landscape and kingdom created by Kubla Khan. Whereas “just back: into the Mongolian nothingness” is a travel article. However it’s not the usual type of travel writing you would expect, as it’s not really persuasive.
The poem changes to the 1st person narrative and the speaker then attempts to recreate a vision he saw. Through the description of the visions of Kubla Khan’s palace and the speaker’s visions the poem tells of the creation of an enchanting beautiful world as the result of power of human imagination. Similarly the article has a sense of first person throughout, with some moments when the sense of first person isn’t there as the writer uses “we” more frequently than “I”, until the end paragraph.
Another similarity is the references to nature. Coleridge uses nature in “Kubla Khun” in contrasting way “blossomed” and “bright” then to “earth” and “forests” this gives a contrast of feelings as the reader feels happy with the tune of “bright” and “blossomed” whereas the use of “forest” and “earth” give a sad tone, this is because you see darkness when you think of earth and forest whereas you think of colourful things when you read bright and blossomed. However in “just back: into the Mongolian nothingness” nature is used in a way that makes you feel it’s there way of surviving “we see occasional goats, sheep and camels; the flicker of a rodent; and we catch sight of a distant vultures. And there is a lot of sky, sand and nothingness”. The article makes you feel like the nature they see is the thing that has kept them carrying on.
Coleridge in “Kubla Kham” conveys his imagination by using language, the vocabulary used by Coleridge is of great