Coleridge's Kubla Khan was inspired by an opium-influenced dream
Kubla Khan
Coleridge's Kubla Khan was inspired by an opium-influenced dream
Samuel Taylor Coleridge composed Kubla Khan after experiencing an opium-influenced dream. The poem was interrupted by a person on business from Porlock, causing Coleridge to forget the lines. This interruption led to the poem being left unpublished and kept for private readings until 1816.
Example
Coleridge's poem Kubla Khan was inspired by an opium-influenced dream and was left incomplete due to an interruption.
Remember this
Understanding the origin of Kubla Khan helps appreciate the poem's unique creation process and its status as a fragment.
Text adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Related concepts
Rimbaud's 'systematic derangement of all the senses' sought
Rimbaud's 'systematic derangement of all the senses' sought a new poetic language through extremity
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Dostoevsky's exploration of the 'Russian soul' through suffering and spiritual redemption
Gabriel García Márquez
Gabriel García Márquez won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982
Un Chien Andalou
A razor slices an eye in Un Chien Andalou
Milton: A Poem in Two Books
William Blake's epic poem explores the fall and redemption of the human imagination
Songs of Experience (David Axelrod album)
David Axelrod's Songs of Experience juxtaposes childhood purity against adult corruption through Blake's poems
Swipe through 100 ML concepts daily
Open Pocket Polymath