Saturday, October 26, 2019
Kubla Kahn :: Author, Literary Analysis
Samuel Taylor Coleridgeââ¬â¢s poem ââ¬Å"Kubla Kahnâ⬠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 his own drug induced thoughts and opinions. à à à à à Coleridge paints the picture of a kingdom, Xanadu, and the surrounding scenery is described with a heavenly, dreamlike vividness that can only result from smoking a little too much opium. This kingdom has a ââ¬Å"pleasure domeâ⬠that was created by Kubla Kahn. The paradise-like kingdom consists of ten miles of ââ¬Å"fertile groundâ⬠and is surrounded by walls that are securely ââ¬Å"girdledâ⬠around the property. The gardens are ââ¬Å"blossoming with many an incense baring treeâ⬠and are watered by a wandering stream. There is a river, and it gives life to Kubla Kahnââ¬â¢s creations and runs ââ¬Å"through caverns measureless to man.â⬠à à à à à à à à à à The landscape is described in an interesting fashion with contrasting adjectives. It is described as ââ¬Å"savage,â⬠but it is ââ¬Å"holyâ⬠and ââ¬Å"enchanted.â⬠The enchantment is compared to a ââ¬Å"woman wailing for her demon lover.â⬠This image of sexuality leaves the impression that the Earth is anxiously mourning for a fulfillment of evil. The chasem below Kubla Kahnââ¬â¢s paradise ââ¬Å"pleasure domeâ⬠is beset with ââ¬Å"ceaseless turmoilâ⬠and chaos. It is described as ââ¬Å"breathing in fast pantsâ⬠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 ââ¬Å"pleasure domeâ⬠floods the land. Additional to the noises of the chaos are ââ¬Å"ancestral voiced prophesying warâ⬠and these voices of war are a reminder that the
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