The Great Samuel Coleridge!!

1. The Great Samuel Coleridge!! By: Chelsea Anderson Kyle Endt Ashton Yates

2. Background! • Born on Ottery St. Mary Devonshire (1772-1834) • His middle name was Taylor • Samual was the youngest of 10 kids • Parents were Reverend John Coleridge, and Ann Bowdon • Later in life Samual married Sara Fricker in 1795 . . . (he did not love her)

3. Random Facts • Samual went to Jesus College • He joined the Reformist Movement in 1793 • Samual joined the army, but once he found out he wasn’t fit for it he was labeled with “insanity” by his brother Captain James Coleridge • He suffered from Neuralgic and rheumatic pains thus he was addicted to Opium • Samual believed imagination to be the vital force behind poetry. • Samual’s earliest writing were charms, spells, and chants to warn of sickness.

4. Random Facts 2 • Samuel Coleridge wrote: • Poems On Various Subjects – 1796 • Poems, The Watchman -1797 • Coleridge became friends with Dorothy and William Wordsworth. • This results in Lyrical Ballads- opened with 'Rime of the Ancient Mariner' (Coleridge), and ended with 'Tintern Abbey‘ (Wordsworth). • These poems set a new style by using everyday language and fresh ways of looking at nature.

5. Kubla Khan History • Written in1798 • Samual claimed to have heard these words in an opium induced dream. • “In Xanadu did Kubla Khan” • Originally titled “ A Vision in a Dream. A Fragment” • Samual wrote about two hundred to three hundred lines of poetry simultaneously while he slept.

6. Kubla Khan History 2 • The poem is really about nothing, it doesn’t have a meaning. • Since this poem is about nothing; Samuel uses enthralling language and feeling to intrigue the reader. • The language used in the poem is very descriptive you can imagine what Coleridge envisioned. • Kubla Khan is a lyrical poem that is in four stanzas. • Kubla Khan is written in iambic pentameter

7. Kubla Khan – Stanza 1 • In Xanadu did Kubla KhanA stately pleasure-dome decree:Where Alph, the sacred river, ranThrough caverns measureless to manDown to a sunless sea. So twice five miles of fertile groundWith walls and towers were girdled round:And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills,Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree;And here were forests ancient as the hills,Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.

8. Meaning – Stanza 1 • Xanadu – a town/city • Alph – sacred river • Kubla Khan – came from the Chinese emperor of Kublai Khan • Coleridge is describing a place; a carefree utopia

9. Kubla Khan - Stanza 2 • But oh! that deep romantic chasm which slantedDown the green hill athwart a cedarn cover!A savage place! as holy and enchantedAs e'er beneath a waning moon was hauntedBy woman wailing for her demon-lover!And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething,As if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing,A mighty fountain momently was forced:Amid whose swift half-intermitted burstHuge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail,Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail:And 'mid these dancing rocks at once and everIt flung up momently the sacred river.Five miles meandering with a mazy motionThrough wood and dale the sacred river ran,Then reached the caverns measureless to man,And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean:And 'mid this tumult Kubla heard from farAncestral voices prophesying war!

10. Meaning – Stanza 2 • Savage – not domesticated or cultivated; wild • Describes a savage place Coleridge envisions. • A holy, enchanted place that has a forced fountain because of an earthquake • This stanza is about the circumstances and setting surrounding his (Samuel’s) “pleasure –dome”.

11. Kubla Khan- Stanza 3 • The shadow of the dome of pleasureFloated midway on the waves;Where was heard the mingled measureFrom the fountain and the caves.It was a miracle of rare device,A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice!

12. Meaning – Stanza 3 • “pleasure-dome” is built by Kubla and is described to be sunny. • In the first stanza the underground sea was described as being “sunless”, but the waves are discussed to bear the shadow of the “pleasure-dome” • This means the “pleasure-dome” has miracle qualities because it is lit up next to a sunless sea. • The final line in this stanza is an exclamation, and it is the climax of the poem.

13. Kubla Khan – Stanza 4 • A damsel with a dulcimerIn a vision once I saw:It was an Abyssinian maid,And on her dulcimer she played,Singing of Mount Abora.Could I revive within meHer symphony and song,To such a deep delight 'twould win meThat with music loud and longI would build that dome in air,That sunny dome! those caves of ice!

14. Meaning – Stanza 4 • The damsel is used as a metaphor. • Damsel = Coleridge • Coleridge wishes that he was inspired in the way Kubla Khan was. • Coleridge is speaking to us and telling us this was his own personal vision, not Kubla Khan’s. • Coleridge wants to build this “pleasure-dome” and wants to be in the utopia he describes.

15. Kubla Khan – Stanza 5 • And all who heard should see them there,And all should cry, Beware! Beware!His flashing eyes, his floating hair!Weave a circle round him thrice,And close your eyes with holy dread,For he on honey-dew hath fedAnd drunk the milk of Paradise.

16. Meaning – Stanza 5 • Coleridge fears the structure would not be accepted by most people. • Coleridge also fears that he will be labeled a mad man, someone who is unreasonable and to be feared.

17. Overall Meaning • This poem can mean several things or have several different messages to different people. • This poem simply describes a beautiful place that Samuel Taylor Coleridge dreamt of when he was high off opium.

18. Websites That Helped Make This Project AMAZING!!!!!! • http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi./coleridg.htm • http://www.online-literature.com/coleridge/640/ • http://www.enotes.com/poetry-criticism/kubla-khan-samuel-taylor-coleridge • http://www.sparknotes.com/poetry/coleridge/section5.rhtml • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kubla_Khan • http://www.helium.com/items/298634-poetry-analysis-kubla-khan-by-samuel-taylor-coleridge