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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 . 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 ’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. The second part of the poem reveals that although the mind has the ability to create this paradise-like world it is tragically unable to sustain this world.
It is believed that “” was created by ...

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was lost. The unfinished work was not published for three decades. Much mystery has enshrouded “” and it’s meaning due to the circumstances of it’s creation. The poem itself is as mystical and interesting as the story behind its creation.
The poem begins with a mythical tone, “In Xanadu did / A stately pleasure dome decree.” The poem does not give specifics to nature of the construction of the palace. It just states that Khan decreed the palace be built and then begins describing the palace. The poem’s method of creating a vision of the “pleasure dome” is similar to the biblical tale of the creation of the garden of Eden. As Eden was created by the word of God, the “pleasure dome” created was by the power of ’s “decree”. The use of the word “decree” implies that it was Khan’s will that created the pleasure dome.
The wonderful kingdom of the ancient and the setting that surrounds it is described with heavenly, dreamlike vividness. The kingdom that creates is described as ...

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Added: 9/15/2007 11:36:51 PM
Category: English
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