Class 12 English — Chapter 9: Kubla Khan
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What you'll learn
- ▸Genesis of the Poem: A Vision in a Dream
- ▸Romanticism and the Supernatural
- ▸The Pleasure-Dome of Kubla Khan
- ▸The Romantic Chasm and Natural Forces
- ▸Juxtaposition and Contrasting Imagery
- ▸Sensory Imagery: Visual and Auditory
- ▸The Vision of the Abyssinian Maid
- ▸The Power of Poetic Creation
Chapter Summary
--- PAGE 1 --- 12076CH09 4 Kubla Khan Or A Vision in a Dream: A Fragment S.T. Coleridge was imaginative even as a child. He studied at Cambridge. In 1797, he met Wordsworth; the two belonged to the first generation of Romantic poets. Coleridge was responsible for presenting the supernatural as real and Wordsworth would try to render ordinary reality as remarkable and strange. Byron, Shelley and Keats belonged to the next generation of Romantic Poets. The genesis of this poem was a vision seen by Coleridge in a trance-like state of mind. He tried to capture its essence but an interruption caused an irreparable break in his poetic flow. S.T. Coleridge 1772-1834 In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through c…
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- 💡 Humans spend about six full years of their lives dreaming.
- 💡 Some dreams are so vivid they feel completely real, like a movie.
- 💡 The word "Xanadu" now means an ideal, beautiful place.
- 💡 Marco Polo truly visited the great Kublai Khan in China.
- 💡 Ancient peoples believed dreams could predict the future.
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