Coleridge’s Kubla Khan

Coleridge’s Kubla Khan

JingYi Liao
Dr.Linda Reesman
EN-102 F15C
October 10, 2008
“Kubla Khan”
According to P.B.Shelly, who was one of the major English Romantic poets, he defined poetry as, “A poem is the very image of life expressed in its eternal truth.” This definition unearthed the treasure of the poem, which is buried behind the words. A poem should originate from life; however it should be higher than life. There is a life-force to poems that could exist in this would for a long, long, long time. Doesn’t matter how time gone and how the world went to change; the poem is still there for us. Actually, in “Kubla Khan”, it really represented this kind of characteristic. This was the most important lyric poem in England’s history which was written in 1797. During those two hundred years, the position of this poem never changed in English poems.
“Kubla Khan,or a Vision in a Dream. A Fragment” was a poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. He was a Romantic poet, critic and philosopher; also he was the founder of the Romantic Movement in England. When Coleridge was a little boy, he was always ridiculed by his older brother, so he usually stayed in a local library to escape his brother’s abuse. The local library was an important place for Coleridge, because in this place he discovered his passion for poetry. He used his whole life to work on poems. Coleridge was one of the most important poets in English’s poetic history.

Though the poem “Kubla Khan” in Coleridge’s literatures was shorter, but it was still widely known. Because in this poem not just present a beautiful vision of the Asian emperor Kublai Khan’s palace in Yuan dynasty, or the poet himself brought us to hear the singing from an Abyssinian maid. Yes! These things were very mystery; the reason because they were not usually could find in our daily life. However, the main reason this poem could become famous is because the poet’s inspiration came from his dream; he tried to recollect this dream on his paper after he...

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