Kubla Khan (S.T Coleridge) — Flashcards

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Kubla Khan was written by S.T. Coleridge, one of the first generation of Romantic poets. He is known for presenting the supernatural as real and for imaginative, dream-like poetry.

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The poem is called a fragment because it remained incomplete. Coleridge had a dream-like vision, began to write it down, and was interrupted by a chance visitor, so the poem was not finished.

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The poem began from a vision Coleridge saw in a trance-like state. After taking prescribed medicine and falling asleep in his chair, he had a wonderful dream and tried to capture it in writing.

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Kubla Khan founded the Mongol dynasty in China in the thirteenth century. In the poem, he appears as the emperor who decreed a stately pleasure-dome.

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Alph is the sacred river in the poem. It runs through caverns measureless to man and finally sinks into a sunless, lifeless sea, creating a mysterious and powerful image.

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The line describes Kubla Khan's command to build a grand pleasure-dome. It suggests power, wealth, and artistic splendour, while also creating a dream-like and unreal atmosphere.

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The phrase creates a strong contrast between warmth and cold, light and darkness, pleasure and danger. Such opposites give the poem its strange, surreal beauty.

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The chasm is described as a savage, holy and enchanted place, haunted by a woman wailing for her demon-lover. This makes it mysterious, wild, and supernatural at the same time.