KUBLA KHAN – COLERIDGE

KUBLA KHAN – COLERIDGE

·         The poem is composed in a sort of Reverie.

·         The poem was written at Brimstone farm.

·         Imagination is the prominent ingredient of the poem.

·         The imagination was interrupted by a person from Porlock.

·         George Gordon Byron published.

·         This poem consists of images.

·         It has two parts. 1. Depicts Palace 2. Depicts poet’s skills.

·         Who is Kubla khan? A tartor king.

·         What does he want to do? Create an Eden.

·         Kubla khan is often called as A Vision in a Dream.

·         Kubla Khan is a Mongol ruler, a great Chinese emperor and founder of the Yuan dynasty.

·         Xanadu is his summer capital.

·         He wants to construct the palace in garden, which has incense bearing trees.

·         Garden is enclosed with a wall stretched for 10 miles.

·         Kubla Khan meant both Priest and King.

·         The pleasure-dome is a very tall building. The shadow of dome fell on the waves.

·         Its dome is sunny and the caves under it are icy.

·         The listener of the poet looks upon him as a holy being.

·         The poet is divine creature eating the honey-dew and the nectar which are the food of the gods.

·         The River Alph (referred as the Sacred River) pours into subterranean sea.

·         The Alph meanders 5 miles across forests and valleys.

·         The Alph is compared to Delphian oracle

·         In Kubla Khan we saw a Damsel with dulcimer (musical instrument).

·         The damsel was a Abyssinian maid.

·         The damsel of singing of Mount Abora.

·         Kubla khan hears his ancestral voices warning of forthcoming war.

·         Coleridge got the idea of Kublakhan as Dejection ode from Percy’s Reliques of English Poetry.

·         “His flashing eyes, his floating hair weave a circle round him thrice”- referred Coleridge.

·         Coleridge says that the people who see him will weave a circle round him thrice.

·         The outstanding feature of the property is a fountain in a chasm.

·         Coleridge conjures up visions of two kinds of paradise- on the ‘ stately dome and pleasure garden’ of Kubla Khan, and the other the Paradise of Mount Abora.

·         The poem was chiefly inspired by opium consuming dream.

·         It is a fragrant.

·         It is a piece of verbal magic, inspired in a dream.

·         In 1797 coleridge had been ill, and a drug had been prescribed to make him sleep. Just before he fell asleep he had been reading a book about Kubla Khan.

·         Though it was written In 1797 it was not published until 1816, when in preface Coleridge described it as “ a psychological curiosity’.