Essay Write a close analysis of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Kubla Khan" Kubla Khan A vision in a dream. A fragment. The poem Kubla Khan is a strange, mystic poem that some people believe to be the most romantic poem ever written. A reason why this poem is strange is that with this poem there is a prologue. Within this prologue Coleridge explains about reading a book on Kubla Khan, then taking opium and going of …showed first 75 words of 1006 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1006 total…and war is being prophesied by ancestral voices. The point that they are ancestral voices shows a homage to the past from Coleridge possibly trying to get people to remember the mistakes made before them. In conclusion, I believe that Kubla Khan is a great piece of romanticised poetry whether it is written by an opium addict or a genius or both. Bibliography Samuel Coleridge, (1797), Kubla Khan Milton, Paradise Lost. Orsen welles, (1945) Citizen Kane, Paramount.