Kubla Khan by Samuel T. Coleridge

“It is essential to poetry that it should be simple, and appeal to the elements and primary laws of nature; that it should be sensuous, and by its imagery elicit truth at a flash; that it should be impassioned, and be able to move our feelings and awaken affection”.

Poetry is clearly more than a complex art. It is in fact, the art of discovering the truth, connecting the external world with your inside. What a good poet does is to represent or externalize his or her feelings with a simple language which is full of images, colours, places and even music. And this is what the poet Samuel T. Coleridge does in his poem Kubla Khan. In his work, he includes certain poetic elements that let him known as the poet of the Supernatural. Nature, passion, fervour, music and fantasy are essential elements of his poetry.

Kubla Khan is a poem that invites the reader to another dimension, a place that is beyond of the common or ordinary world, and where the people cannot even imagine it could exist. After reading the poem, I got the feeling I was reading a love song with sounds that belong to another Universe. It is truthfully a world that it could really exists. We could realized of it, if we just open our eyes and then we will able to see that in this Earth there are places which are in front of us. However, we are so far of our human nature that we are not capable to perceive them. Nevertheless, thanks to Coleridge, he invites us to that foreign World through out his supernatural and fantastic poetry.