Class 12 English — Chapter 9: Kubla Khan
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What you'll learn
- ▸Poem's Origin: A Vision in a Dream
- ▸Romanticism and the Supernatural
- ▸Imagery of the Pleasure-Dome and Gardens
- ▸The Romantic Chasm and Primal Forces
- ▸Juxtaposition of Order and Chaos
- ▸The Vision of the Abyssinian Maid
- ▸The Poet as a Divine Creator
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…
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Did you know?
- 💡 Humans forget 95% of their dreams soon after waking up.
- 💡 Some people can control their dreams in a state called lucid dreaming.
- 💡 Animals also dream, showing similar brain patterns to humans during sleep.
- 💡 Xanadu was a real summer capital of Kublai Khan's vast Mongol Empire.
- 💡 Marco Polo visited Kublai Khan's grand palace in Xanadu centuries ago.
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