What is the background story of Kubla Khan by S.T.Coleridge?

[Nudrat Hameed]

Does anyone know about the situation behind the creation of Kubla Khan?? I mean it iz the rezult of influence of opium and a dream of Coleridge, so please tell me sumthin about the bachground of this poem. I'll be very much thankfull to u.

[serene syeda!]

yes kubla khan is a dream illusion n result of opium n thts the reason its an incomplete poem....a critic says "its an inspiring nonsense". and some blieve that this peom is about romentic poets,as river alph passess from forest and fertilizes the land same as poets with their poem moralize the common human beings and depth of river is depth of poets emotins and imagination....here kubla khan the emperorwants to controll nature but he can not,he can built palace but he can not measure thedepth of river he can not controll caves,he can not stop the strange sounds etc but a poet can controll everything through his imagination.

[wind]

Dream quality is an ingredient of Romantic poetry and in kubla khan we have an instance of dream poetry at its finest...

The background of this poem is that this Poem has come to the poet as a dream under the influence of Opium.When he woke up,he is able to write down the fifty-four lines of the poem...unluckily he was interrupted by some guest... and after the interruption Cholridge loses the spontanity and cannot recapture the words and the images of dream....

Therefore,coleridge has regarded this poem as a fragment ...

Regards,

[hijab786]

wht r the main and most qualities of s.t.coleridge including romantic poetry

[wind]

Aoa,

Along with wordsworth, Coleridge is the cofounder of the romantic Movements.
Main features of his poetry are,

Humanitarianism and love of liberty.Importance of imagination.supernatural rendered real through imagination.Dream quality.Medievalism,Lyricism.Insight into human mind and psyche. and minute description of nature....


Regards

[MOEEN AKHTAR]

Kubla khan was also inspired by a dream that he saw because he ha taken anodyne due to illness. The story goes that as he awoke he took paper and pen and began writing down. It went on guite fine, but when a visitor's appeard and interrupted him, it was impossible to continue the verse; and the poem remains incomplete. Such incidents point to his chaotic way of working, his fragmentary methods that were guided solely by undependable flashes of thrill. No wonder Coleridge's totel output is slender and his great poems remain fragmentary. But all the same, they are great poems for their sense of music and felicity of expression. He experimented with metre, but cannot be said to be a great metrist. These poems show Coleridge's mind combining emotional intensity with intellectual clarity, a mind capable of analytical power.
Coleridge strayed into philsoophical fields and heart a lot from the disciples of Kant to create his viwe of the "essential existing between our spirit and the divine". His psychical approch convinced him that by descending to the depth of our consciousness we can discover the"imminent being". To explore our hidden being is the way to know the universe. He turned his attention to prose and wrote the famous Lectures on Shakespeare and Biographia Literaria, showing once again to the world what a fine analytical faculty he was endowed with. His views on Shakespeare had a wide effect on the nineteenth century critics, while Biographia became a monumental work of literary criticism. Here he separated Fancy from imagination projecting Fancy as a passive faculty which puts together isolated mental pictures, while imagination was regarded as more active and creative. Imagination was interpreted by Wordsworth in his own way presenting it as a great creative force, whereas Coleridge saw the difference between the ability of the mind to merely register impressions and associations, and to create new visions and perceptions. The relation between the two is not denied: rather their relatedness is seen as suggesting greater mystic power waiting to be explored and understood.