Poetry- Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Kubla Khan Coleridge’s supposedly “opium induced” masterpiece, Kubla Khan, seems to have resonated with me in a way that epitomises the aspects I love about Romantic poetry. Its highly embellished descriptions and narrative-style encounters with the sublime position this poem as one of high creativity and genuine entertainment. The following copy of the poem is taken from www.thepoetryfoundation.org : Or, a vision in a dream. A Fragment. In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea. So twice five miles of fertile ground With 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. But oh! that deep romantic chasm which slanted Down the gr...