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    "Kubla Khan" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge reveals the power of the imaginative poetry. This poetry has the ability to create kingdoms and paradise. In this poem Coleridge is expressing heaven and hell through his own eyes just as the aplostles did in the "Bible" and Milton did in "Paradise Lost". The poem begins with a mythical tone‚ "In Xanadu did Kubla Khan/ A stately pleasure dome decree." The poem does not give specifics to the construction of the palace. It just states that Khan decreed

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    | AbstractThis essay discusses the question of the transforming creative self and the aesthetics of becoming in Samuel Taylor Coleridge ’s ’Kubla Khan ’ and ’Dejection: An Ode ’‚ by reassessing certain strands of Romantic visionary criticism and Deconstruction‚ which are two major critical positions in the reading and interpreting of Romantic poetry. The poetics of becoming and the creative process place the self in Coleridge ’s aesthetic and spiritual idealism in what I have called a constructive

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    Kubla Khan The poem begins with a fanciful description of Kublai Khan’s capital Xanadu‚ which Coleridge places near the river Alph‚ which passes through caverns before reaching a dark or dead sea. Although the land is one of man-made "pleasure"‚ there is a natural‚ "sacred" river that runs past it. The lines describing the river have a markedly different rhythm from the rest of the passage:[29] In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree : Where Alph‚ the sacred river

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    “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. 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

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    “Kublah Khan” Samuel Coleridge’s poemKubla Khan” is an example of romantic creative thought which uses idealistic process to capture a dream of another world. Through the use of strong imagery‚ Coleridge produces a paradise like vision of a rich landscape‚ which is surrounded by a dome built by the main character named for the title‚ Kublah Khan. This alludes to an important aspect of the poems theme‚ man verses nature. The overriding theme of the work contains extensive imagery that allows for

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    Explanation of “Kubla Khan” in Post-Colonial Context Post Colonialism is the interactions and reactions of the colonialists and the imperialistic powers. Literature which reacts by challenging the content and form of colonial influence and expresses its ideas in its own voice and vernacular language‚ is deemed to be Post-Colonial. Kubla Khan is a poem written by S.T coleridge.This poem describes Xanadu‚ the palace of Kubla Khan‚ a Mongol emperor and the grandson of Genghis Khan.But if we interpret

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    S. T. Coleridge’s poemKubla Khan” (The Oxford Anthology of English Literature. Romantic Poetry and Prose‚ pp. 254 – 257)‚ paying special attention to the romantic interpretation of art and the status of the artist/poet. Along with “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”(1798) and “Christabel” (1816)‚ “Kubla Khan” is one of Coleridge’s most famous and impressive poems. These poems deal with supernatural events. At the time of the poem’s publication‚ Coleridge calls Kubla Khan a “fragment” and subtitles

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    "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. 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

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    KUBLA KHAN 1797 Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Romantic Movement changed the way art and literature represented the world by focusing on emotions‚ nature‚ and imagination. This emphasis can be seen in the work of Samuel Taylor Coleridge‚ one of the most influential poets of the era. In his poemKubla Khan‚” Coleridge used dreamlike imagery to describe the fabulous palace of a Mongol emperor. The poem shows the author’s interest in the mysterious and the exotic‚ as well as the beauty and savagery

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    CRITICAL APPRECIATION OF KUBLA KHAN Sometimes‚ a poem is celebrated not for the story it tells‚ but for how it is told. Some poems are famous simply because of the way they are told: the elaborate‚ vivid language used to describe places and sights. “Kubla Khan or A Vision in a Dream” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge is one such poem. Written in 1798‚ it is a poem that uses intricate language to portray a vision or dream that Coleridge had. Coleridge claimed that the poem was written in an opium-induced

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