Analytical on Kubla khan

Kubla khan

Kubla Khan is a poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), which refers to the Mongol emperor Kublai Khan , founder of the dynasty around 1280 Chinese Yuan and his summer palace in Shangdu, a town which gives the name became Coleridge famous " Xanadu . "

Structure and Theme

Coleridge says that the poem had been inspired by a dream generated by the opium , which is suggested by the subtitle, Vision in a dream, and that the composition was interrupted by a "visitor from Porlock" ( a person from Porlock ) . A note appended by a manuscript ...