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    Kubla Khan by Coleridge is a metaphor for the creative process and poetic imagination. Written while under the influence of an opiate, the poem describes Coleridge's vision of Kubla Khan's magnificent palace and pleasure dome. It contrasts the planned gardens within Kubla's domain with the ancient forests and rivers that inspire his creation. The poem shifts from a mood of calm to unease as it is revealed that a crack lies beneath the dense trees. As the sacred river meanders through the landscape, the narrative changes from third to first person as Coleridge describes his own vision and sense of power in poetic creation. Through its descriptions of nature, the poem exemplifies the Romantic focus on

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    Kubla Khan by Coleridge is a metaphor for the creative process and poetic imagination. Written while under the influence of an opiate, the poem describes Coleridge's vision of Kubla Khan's magnificent palace and pleasure dome. It contrasts the planned gardens within Kubla's domain with the ancient forests and rivers that inspire his creation. The poem shifts from a mood of calm to unease as it is revealed that a crack lies beneath the dense trees. As the sacred river meanders through the landscape, the narrative changes from third to first person as Coleridge describes his own vision and sense of power in poetic creation. Through its descriptions of nature, the poem exemplifies the Romantic focus on

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    Kubla Khan by Coleridge is a metaphor for the creative process and poetic imagination. Written while under the influence of an opiate, the poem describes Coleridge's vision of Kubla Khan's magnificent palace and pleasure dome. It contrasts the planned gardens within Kubla's domain with the ancient forests and rivers that inspire his creation. The poem shifts from a mood of calm to unease as it is revealed that a crack lies beneath the dense trees. As the sacred river meanders through the landscape, the narrative changes from third to first person as Coleridge describes his own vision and sense of power in poetic creation. Through its descriptions of nature, the poem exemplifies the Romantic focus on

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    Ангела Чурева/23368 Англиска книжевност 4 - поезија јануари, 2017

    Discuss Coleridge's Kubla Khan as a metaphor of the creative process and


    poetic imagination

    Kubla Khan, one of Coleridge's most famous work, despite that it is referred to as a fragment, a
    vision, an incomplete work by Coleridge himself, the lively images contained in the poem are a sufficient
    proof of Coleridge's poetic representation of his theories of the imagination and the creative process
    itself. Being written under an influence of an opiate, which Coleridge took for medication, this poem can
    be perceived as a fluke of the poetic imagination, because when Coleridge fell in a dreamlike state, he
    composed the few hundred lines of poetry and then he awoke and instantaneously began writing down
    what he created in his mind, all of it being a recollection of the vision.

    The poem commences with a description of the magnificent palace - pleasure dome, built by
    Mongolian ruler Kubla Khan. The “pleasure dome” described in the first few lines of the poem is
    reflective of Kubla's power, and the description of the palace and its surroundings also help convey the
    character of the poem's main character. In contrast to the palace and its planned gardens, the space
    outside Kubla's reach is characterized by ancient forests and rivers, providing a majestic inspiration basis
    to Kubla's creation process. It initially appears that there is harmony between the two worlds, but then a
    deep crack in the earth is discovered, hidden under dense trees. The mood of the poem then changes to
    an uneasy sense of the pagan and the supernatural from the sense of calm and balance described in the
    first few lines. As the river moves, the narrative changes from third person to first person where the
    poet then describes his own vision and his own sense of power that comes from successful poetic
    creation.

    The other thing which can be associated with Romanticism is the focus on nature. Not just a
    focus, but a reverence for nature. It extends to the point where nature is a mystical being that can give
    clarity to those who have the honor to commune with nature. "Kubla Khan" features the nature motif
    throughout the entire poem.  

    "A stately pleasure-dome decree:

    Where Alph, the sacred river, ran

    Through caverns measureless to man

       Down to a sunless sea."

    "And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills,

    Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree;

    And here were forests ancient as the hills,

    Enfolding sunny spots of greenery."


    Ангела Чурева/23368 Англиска книжевност 4 - поезија јануари, 2017

    "And mid these dancing rocks at once and ever

    It flung up momently the sacred river.

    Five miles meandering with a mazy motion

    Through wood and dale the sacred river ran,

    Then reached the caverns measureless to man,

    And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean..."

    From the lines given above, we can see how Coleridge is making nature into almost a physical
    being, a myth-like creature, which is characteristic of the poetic expression of the era. The reverent
    focus on nature is why we can say that "Kubla Khan" is a perfect example of Romantic poetry, as well as
    its focus on the significance of an imaginative vision for both Kubla Khan and the speaker - the notion of
    a powerful imagination interacting with nature is the quintessential element.

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