Kubla Khan

"Kubla Khan", whose complete title is "Kubla Khan, or a Vision in a Dream is a poem written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. It is a poem of expression and helps suggest mystery, supernatural, and mystical themes.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, author of the poem Kubla Khan , was born on October 21, 1772 in the town of Ottery St Mary, Devonshire. Coleridge was aEnglish poet, critic, and philosopher. He, as well as his friend William Wordsworth, were of the founders of the Romantic Movement in England.

Coeridge, considered the greatest of Shakespearean critic, used langueage to express the images and pictures that were in his imagination in the poem Kubla Khan.

Coleridge claimed that it was written in the autumn of 1797 at a farmhouse near Exmoor, but it may have been composed on one of a number of other visits to the farm. It may also have been revised a number of times before it was first published in 1816.

Coleridge claimed that the poem was inspired by a dream but the composition or the person from Porlock interrupted the composition, or piece. He said he was interrupted by this visitor from Porlock (a town in the South West of England, near) while in the process of writing it. Kubla Khan is only 54 lines long and was never completed. Also, a quote from William Bartram is believed to have been a source of the poem. There is a huge speculation on the poem's meaning, some suggesting the author is just portraying his vision