Kubla Khan

nature lies within ink and paper, which explains why nature is such a prevalent theme in literature. Coleridge, Wordsworth, and Pope took the liberty to create their very own worlds, vastly different though each of these worlds may be. However, “Kubla Khan,” “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud,” and “An Essay on Man” all possess one underlying similarity; they reflect their respective authors’…

Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote much during the Romantic period in literature, and he used naturalistic elements in his writing. Coleridge uses a naturalistic style of writing in many of his poems, especially in “Kubla Khan” and in “The Eolian Harp”. Coleridge seems to often escape reality with his beautiful, naturalistic descriptions of a lands far away, and often times describes a man who longs for those far away lands and the treasures within them. Coleridge, in regard to his use of naturalism…

Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley and William Blake are known as the major figures of Romanticism in English literature. Their romantic poems, “The Lamb” by William Blake, “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” by William Wordsworth, “Kubla Khan” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Ode to The West Wind” by Percy Bysshe Shelley and will be…

souls for tangible gains. Ironically, drugs, the man-made devil, become the ultimate winner in this compact. Not only are the characters in Shakespeare’s Macbeth and Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea enticed by drugs, but also Samuel Coleridge, the author of “Kubla Khan,” indulges himself with drugs. While some of them yield to the great pressure in their life, others simply can not overcome their own lusts. Although substances can induce desirable mental states, they are detrimental in the long run.…

over the use of visual imagery. Critics are of the view that his enormous potential of visual imagery is fully evident in ‘Kubla Khan’ and ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ and he does not perfect the mode of sensuousness lyricism but also this is often echoed by later poets. Lowes argues that Coleridge is unusually sensitive when he employs visual imagery in ‘Kubla…

effusive dialogue “Oh Clark, I love you” but it is mediated by a feeling of being “tied down” to the “lazy days” that she feels renders her life “ineffectual and sad”. The allusion to Kubla Khan in “dazed by the magic of the great crystal walls Sally Carrol found herself repeating over and over two lines from “Kubla Khan: It was a miracle of rare device” highlights the way the persona’s initial assumptions of the North are contrary to the reality, as her initial feeling of excitement are…

Located in Southern Arizona, Kartchner Caverns stands as a magnificent tribute to the incredible power of water in the creation of Earth’s landforms. This cave is known as a living cave, meaning that formations are still being created within the cavern walls. Inside Kartchner, it is quite moist and humid, both being common characteristics that living caves share. Today, water stick drips and trickles inside the caves, shaping the caverns even more. The cave, now knows as Kartchner Caverns,…

Samuel Coolidge, author of not only Kubla Khan, but of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, as well, wrote his story where real life slips into dreams and facts were reborn as fantasies. “Coleridge was far from being the most famous British writer in France during the first half of the nineteenth century”(Soubigou). Coolidge dared the journey inward and continue deep into the world of the imagination. His hunger for new ideas led him into radical politics and soon found himself suffering from asthma…

If I had to pick a favorite “unit”, I would say individual poetry presentation. My friend and I did a very similar group presentation on Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “Kubla Khan” in highschool, still one of my favorite poems. This project inspired me to very vigorously read and listen to reading of the poems, and similar to the one in highschool, inspired a lot of excited anxiety and a feeling of accomplishment. Mark Strand…

To fully grasp the importance of cocaine to the Expressionist poets and the movement as a whole, the history of substance abuse in literature and artistic circles of the years leading up to 1900 must be noted. Cocaine, while being a drug pharmacologically different from the choice recreational pharmaceuticals of the past, most notably opium and hashish, occupies a niche within the greater domain of drug culture among the Avant-Garde and the production of drug literature in particular. “The role…