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Kubla Khan-
George Taylor
Coleridge
- Context
- written under the influence of opium
- key poet in the romantic era
- metaphor for the
rational and
irrational mind
- unfettered imagination
- unfettered imagination
- interpreted
as an
allegory on
the subject
of
inspiration
- rational
mind vs
irrational
mind
- rational
mind vs
irrational
mind
- written under the influence of opium
- narrative stance
- third person
- descriptive
- third person
- Grammar and Syntax
- declarative mood
- interrupted by exclamatories
- interrupted by exclamatories
- fronted
conjunctions
- conveys
the shift
in mood
- conveys
the shift
in mood
- adverbials
- strong sense of location
- strong sense of location
- declarative mood
- Lexis/ Imagery
- contrast between lexis-
suggesting beauty and
serenity of nature
- dynamic
forceful verbs
- gothic imagery
- concludes
with a
paradox
- summing
up the
confusion of
the vision
- summing
up the
confusion of
the vision
- contrast between lexis-
suggesting beauty and
serenity of nature
- structure and form
- extract from a longer poem
- can be read symbolically, allegorically, its
essential an evocative portrait of a
paradoxical place
- extract from a longer poem
- Phonology
- iambic tetrameter
- 8 syllables, 4 feet
- 8 syllables, 4 feet
- ABAABCCDEDE
- Alliteration
- chant like musical in conation
- iambic tetrameter
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