A poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley is called Ozymandias. Ozymandias is seen as romantic because it challenges the power of kings. We are introduced to the poem by the poet by having a statue explained and described to us. The statue though has been demolished and only its legs stand. The statue has now obviously lost all importance compared to the day that it was built. With the statue having lost all importance, the poet makes out that the sculpture now has that lost importance. "Tell that its sculptor well those passions read which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things." These lines of the poem explain to me that when the statue was built the sculpture had no importance what so ever when the king was alive, but as time has passed the king has been forgotten and no longer lives, but what does still live is the statue. With the statue still remaining and the king long gone the sculpture is made more important because his work can still be seen. This line of the poem is challenging the power of the king metaphorically. Bysshe claims that the power of the king is just a moment in time all will seize to exist, "My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: look on my works, ye mighty, and despair." Romantic poets challenged the world around them. Bysshe has done this in this poem by challenging the power of the king. Due to the poet challenging the world around him it makes the poem romantic. Ancient Egypt is also suggested in the poem with its links to Christ and Ramases II. This would be considered enough in those days to make something exotic but the poet makes it even more exotic by using a strange name and an unknown location. A poem that also uses an exotic location is Kubla Khan.
One widely accepted analysis states that the "Kubla Khan" is nothing more than a fragment. ... The "Kubla Khan" has also been interpreted as having a religious connection. ... This writer's opinion is that Coleridge wanted the "Kubla Khan" to have a shaded meaning. ... This is perhaps why the "Kubla Khan" is incomplete. ... It is debated whether or not to dismiss the idea and view the "Kubla Khan" as a completed work. ...
Five miles meandering with a mazy motion Through wood and dale the sacred river ran, Then reached the caverns measureless to man, And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean: And 'mid this tumult Kubla heard from far Ancestral voices prophesying war! ... The poem known as Kubla Khan is one of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's best poems. ... Kubla Khan was a Mongolian ruler who ruled an empire in the early 1260's. ... Kubla Khan speaks of a woman who appears in his dream who sings a legendary paradise like Khans The third part of the poem basically describes how Khan wishes he could...
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. ... 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. ...
Kubla Khan Samuel Taylor Colderidge the oriental. ... For Kubla Khan, the entire poem, in fact, is of pure imagination. It mainly describes the palace decreed by Kubla Khan. ... A notion of violence can be found throughout Kubla Khan. ... Kubla Khan Samuel Taylor Colderidge endures. ...
The poem I chose to explore based on its imagery is "Kubla Khan" written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. "Kubla Khan" is a mixture of delightful images that Coleridge writes about symbolically. ... The first figure or agent in the land of Xanadu, is Khan, a character immediately identified as being important and powerful: "In Xanadu did Kubla Khan/ A stately pleasure dome decree" (ll. 1-2) The Khan appears to be the ultimate warrior for his words shape his utopian reality. It is Khan, who produces such an enchanting paradise in which he protects and roams just as God would. ... Khan's...
Kubla Khan is an amazing example of imaginative thought associated so closely with the Romantic Poets. Samuel Coleridge presents a narrative style text in Kubla Khan with a birth, life and death theme with each it's own stanza. ... The language used here is very dramatic continuing the sense of delight found in Kubla Khan's second stanza. ... An oppostitional reading to the poem Kubla Khan is that it was not so much an authentic emotive and imaginative poem, but more the drug-induced ravings of Samuel Coleridge, who one day drifted into a fantasy that was Xanadu. ... Lucy in...
Khubilai Khan the Wise Emperor Note: He is also known as: Kubilai, Kublai, Kubla The largest empire of all time was the Yuan Dynasty and its leader was the ingenious Khubilai Khan. ... Khubilai Khan excelled at making intelligent political choices. ... Khubilai Khan's clever political decisions allowed him to attain success. ... Khubilai Khan found various ingenious ways to unify his empire. ... Khubilai Khan had a vision of the whole world, united under Mongol rule. ...
To Coleridge, the rapture of writing is equivalent to the rapture of sexual stimulation, hence the sexual imagery throughout "Kubla Khan". ... When he returns to finish his creation, he is unable to recollect the vision, and so "Kubla Khan" is a fragment. ...
Yuan- 1279-1368, the period of Mongol rule over China initiated by the conquest of the Southern Song (Sung) dynasty by Kublai Khan (also known as Khubilai or Kubla). ... Under the leadership of Genghis Khan (also known as Chinggis) and then of his descendants, the Mongols in the 13th century carved out an empire stretching from what is now Korea and western Russia in the north to Burma and Iraq in the south. ...
