1) Coleridge was a notable 18th century poet known for his use of supernatural elements in poems like "Kubla Khan", "Christabel", and "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner".
2) "Kubla Khan" is considered one of Coleridge's masterpieces of supernatural poetry, creating an atmosphere of mystery through its descriptions of the pleasure dome and the sunless sea.
3) The vivid imagery in "Kubla Khan" transforms the everyday world into one of enchantment, drawing on images from Coleridge's subconscious mind to create a sense of wonder.
1) Coleridge was a notable 18th century poet known for his use of supernatural elements in poems like "Kubla Khan", "Christabel", and "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner".
2) "Kubla Khan" is considered one of Coleridge's masterpieces of supernatural poetry, creating an atmosphere of mystery through its descriptions of the pleasure dome and the sunless sea.
3) The vivid imagery in "Kubla Khan" transforms the everyday world into one of enchantment, drawing on images from Coleridge's subconscious mind to create a sense of wonder.
1) Coleridge was a notable 18th century poet known for his use of supernatural elements in poems like "Kubla Khan", "Christabel", and "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner".
2) "Kubla Khan" is considered one of Coleridge's masterpieces of supernatural poetry, creating an atmosphere of mystery through its descriptions of the pleasure dome and the sunless sea.
3) The vivid imagery in "Kubla Khan" transforms the everyday world into one of enchantment, drawing on images from Coleridge's subconscious mind to create a sense of wonder.
1) Coleridge was a notable 18th century poet known for his use of supernatural elements in poems like "Kubla Khan", "Christabel", and "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner".
2) "Kubla Khan" is considered one of Coleridge's masterpieces of supernatural poetry, creating an atmosphere of mystery through its descriptions of the pleasure dome and the sunless sea.
3) The vivid imagery in "Kubla Khan" transforms the everyday world into one of enchantment, drawing on images from Coleridge's subconscious mind to create a sense of wonder.
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Supernatural Elements in KublaKhan
Coleridge was considered to be a note worth poet of 18th
century. Coleridges poetic career is a very short one. Yet he has given very remarkable poems. In 1796 he published his first volume of poems on various subjects. Coleridges best works are mainly of two kinds 1) Supernatural Poems 2) Samul Taylor Coleridge conversational poems 1) supernatural poems: like Kubla Khan Christabel and The Rime of Ancient Mariner. These timeless poems are excellent example of romantic imagination. 2) Conversational Poems like A frost at Midnight and Dejection an Ode reveals reflective side of his disposition. * Coleridge as a poet of Supernatural Coleridges most outstanding contribution to romantic to romantic poetry is his treatment of the supernatural. When Coleridge and Wordsworth wrote the lyrical Ballads, Coleridge took the supernatural as his field and undertook to naturalize it. There is no any finer dreamer in English verse than Coleridge. His hi supernatural imagination is controlled by thought and study. Coleridge is co-founder of Romantic Movement with Wordsworth. So, as Wordsworth is a nature poet, Coleridge is known for his supernaturalism. Supernatural elements in Kubla Khan Kubla Khan is the product of sheer fancy. It is a dream poem, a poem of pure magic. It is one of
Coleridges three masterpieces of super natural poetry.
The atmosphere of supernatural mystery is created in Kubla Khan mint by the description of the pleasure dome and the surrounding in which it stood. Kubla Khan is a product of pure fury, a work of sheer imagination and is therefore a wholly Romantic composition. A reader wit a rational or neo-classical spirit would perhaps fails to find any meaning. Or logic or thought in this poem. But to a romantic reader, the poem is a source of intense pleasure and wonder. Kubla Khan is delightful blend of imagination emotion mystery, sensuousness, romantic description, sweet melody and exquisite diction. Kubla Khan is a poem of pure magic. It is one of Coleridges three masterpieces of supernatural poetry, and the other two are christabel and The Rime of Ancient Mariner. Trough the use of vivid imagery Coleridge reproduces a paradise- like vision of the landscape and Kingdome created by Kubla Khan. The atmosphere of supernatural mystery is created in Kubla Khan mainly by a description of the pleasure dome and the surrounding in which it stood. For instance, the river Alph flowing through caverns measureless to man down to a sunless sea. The immeasurable abysses and the sunless sea stir in our mind the feeling of mystery and even fear. Then comes the deep romantic gorge which lay across a wood of cedar tress. The manner in which the water intermittently gushed forth from the spring, throwing up huge places of rock were breathing in fast, thick plants, is staggering to the readers imagination. The atmosphere of mystery and fear is emphasized when another reference is made to the sunless sea or the lifeless ocean in to which the water of Alph falls with a
loud roar. The whole of this description is awe-inspiring if
not horrifying. It should be noted that suggestiveness is a very important ingredient of Coleridges supernaturalism. Nor should we forget the closing lines which which contains a picture of poetic frenzy. Here we have a great blending of the natural and the supernatural. A poets inspiration is of the well-known and natural facts of human life but there is something supernatural about the way in which this poetic inspiration and the creative power of a poet are depicted! And all should cry, Beware! Beware! His fleshing eyes, his floating hair! Weave a circle round him thrice And close eyes with holy dread, For him on honey- drew hath fed. And drunk the milk of Paradise. Every line here emphasizes the atmosphere of mystery and fear which is the key note of the poem. And yet the whole desiccation is psychologically accurate because when the poet is in the state of frenzy is really a magician: touches of realism indeed, have been added, even to the description of the chasm and mighty fountain. The two similes- rebounding hail and the chaffy grain beneath the threshers fail- are drawn from actual life and are the most realistic. Even in the mids of his faroff, divorced from life desciption, Coleridge does not forget that hi real purpose was to make the supernatural and to bring about that willing suspension of disbelief which constitutes poetic faith. Kubla Khan is triumph of supernaturalism. It transforms the world of everyday life in to world of enchantment. Indeed, this poem ranks as a masterpiece
of supernaturalism. in the poem the images which had
been deposited the unconscious mind of Coleridge from his reading about subteraneam rivers, pleasures; places and other marvelous things, emerged to his conscious mind and and were exposed immediately and spontaneously in words. The caverns measureless to man, the romantic chasm, the intermittent burst of water from the fountain, the sunless sea they all create a world of wonder and enchantment. The atmosphere of strangeness and mystery has effetely and skillfully been created in the poem. Indeed, this poem ranks as a master piece, of supernaturalism and is one of the three poems which brought the name of Coleridge to the forefront of the greatest English poets.