Kubla Kahn :: Author, Literary Analysis

Samuel Taylor Coleridges poem Kubla Kahn is an example of imaginative poetry due to an opium addiction. This poem creates its own kingdom and paradise while Colridge expresses his ideas of Heaven and Hell through with(predicate) with(predicate) his own drug induced thoughts and opinions.Coleridge paints the picture of a kingdom, Xanadu, and the surrounding view is described with a heavenly, dreamlike vividness that can only aftermath from smoking a little too much opium. This kingdom has a cheer dome that was created by Kubla Kahn. The paradise-like kingdom consists of ten miles of fertile screen background and is surrounded by walls that are securely girdled around the property. The gardens are anthesis with many an incense baring tree and are watered by a wandering stream. There is a river, and it gives life to Kubla Kahns creations and runs through caverns measureless to man. The landscape is described in an interesting fashion with secern adjectives. It is described as sa vage, but it is holy and enchanted. The enchantment is compared to a womanhood wailing for her demon lover. This image of sexuality leaves the impression that the Earth is anxiously mourning for a fulfillment of evil. The chasem below Kubla Kahns paradise cheer dome is beset with ceaseless turmoil and chaos. It is described as ventilation system in fast pants and there is a powerful eruption, resulting in rock fragments bursting out and being flung from the river. The same river that sustained life for the pleasure dome floods the land. Additional to the noises of the chaos are ancestral voiced prophesying state of war and these voices of war are a reminder that the