Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

            Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
             Kubla Khan written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1797 or 1798 and later published in 1816 uses a vivid imagery, alliteration and a form of symbolism to convey a paradise like version of the landscape of kingdom. In the poem nature takes up a major portion of the poem as he describes the dream world of Kubla Khan. Coleridge gives a vivid image of the poem while he says, "he was reading and when he fell asleep under the influence of opium, which he states that he dreamt the poem, where he then composed the two or three hundred lines in his sleep without any consciousness of effort". Coleridge adds that upon awakening wrote down the lines he remembered from his dream, but was interrupted while writing the lines to the poem and that he could never recollect the rest of the poem. In which the poem was never finished and ended with 54 lines.
             The poems overall effect is a dreamlike visionary that initially seems to be about a wondrous ruler and issues a "decree" an order for the pleasure dome and the landscape appears to be transformed, but there is a sense of violation in his building a "pleasure dome on a sacred river". In which it emphasizes the beauty of the landscape over the power to control. The dream of "Xanadu" itself is an inspired vision but then he later replaced by "Mount Abora". .
             The over conclusion in "Kubla Khan" is that it highlights the power to control, but then reminds us on the power of imagination and the dream world Khan. The most intriguing question about the poem is that, if it was ever intended to have any meaning. .