Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

1. Kubla Khanby Samuel Taylor Coleridge Alayzha, Aric, Shaquaysha

2. Samuel Taylor Coleridge • Samuel was “ the most wonderful man a man who was unquestionably a genius--- poet, critic, journalist, essayist, and philosopher. • The youngest child of village parson in Southwestern England, Coleridge began his classical education at home and later continued it in London. • Coleridge had persuaded Wordsworth to live nearby. • They became catalysts for each other, and the friendship helped Coleridge write most of his best poems. • But, convinced that Wordsworth was “the best poet of the age”, the poet in Coleridge hid in the “giant’s” shadow ever after.

3. Kubla Khan In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A A stately pleasure-dome decree: B Where Alph, the sacred river, ran A Through caverns measureless to man A Down to a sunless sea. B So twice five miles of fertile ground C With walls and towers were girdled round:C And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills, D Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree;B And here were forests ancient as the hills, D Enfolding sunny spots of greenery. E But oh! That deep romantic chasm which slanted F Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover! G A savage place! As holy and enchanted F As e’er beneath a waning moon was haunted F By woman wailing for her demon-lover! G

4. Analysis • Onomatopoeia- word that imitate the sound it represents (also in imitative harmony) • Consonance- The repetition of consonant sounds (but not vowels)