FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
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Death
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Pleasure
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Love
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Reality
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Detailed explanation-1: -The major theme of Kubla Khan is the effects of the dream of the romantic and mysterious on the poet’s mind or the whole being. Then, there is the theme of man’s interaction with nature and the power of the poet’s imagination.
Detailed explanation-2: -The title of Coleridge’s poem is after the name of Kubla Khan, the famous Mongolian Emperor Kubla Khan, a great conqueror and ruler. This title signifies that the poem is about the feats or fortune of that mighty monarch.
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: -Imagination is important in Kubla Khan in two ways. First, the poem was composed from an opium dream the author had which is a form of imagination. Second, the reader is asked to imagine the city based off the elaborate and concrete details that the poem provides.
Detailed explanation-5: -Even though there is a river ALPH in Antarctica, the river mentioned in Samuel T. Coleridge’s poem, “Kubla Khan, ” is fictional and represents the power, force and excitement of the natural world. It also represents movement.