ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

Detailed explanation-2: -Kubla Khan, in full Kubla Khan; or, a Vision in a Dream, poetic fragment by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, published in 1816.

Detailed explanation-3: -The poem describes Kubla Khan as a powerful ruler who has great command. His authoritativeness lies in the fact that he can order for a pleasure dome to be built on merely one order. This pleasure dome is no less than a miracle as it comprises of caves of ice. What’s miraculous is that it is present in a sunny area.

Detailed explanation-4: -His most famous works – ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’, ‘Kubla Khan’ and ‘Christabel’ – all featured supernatural themes and exotic images, perhaps affected by his use of the drugs.

Detailed explanation-5: -Coleridge composed ‘Kubla Khan; Or, A Vision in a Dream’ in 1797 under the influence of opium. He fell into a reverie while reading a travel account, but his dream of the exotic Orient was interrupted by ‘a person on business from Porlock’.