First Advisor

Gregory Goekjian

Date of Publication

7-30-1975

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Arts (M.A.) in English

Department

English

Language

English

Subjects

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834). Kubla Khan

DOI

10.15760/etd.2381

Physical Description

1 online resource. Digitized photocopy of typescript.

Abstract

This paper evaluates the critical response to Samuel Coleridge's "Kubla Khan." In the Introduction I outline my critical approach, which attempts to see the relationships between parts of the poem, sources outside the poem and poet himself. In analyzing Coleridge's esthetics, I have come to the conclusion that the poem was the first of a new type of Romantic poem. The central structural principle of this type of poem is the use of illusion and the fragmented form, or the illusion of the fragmented form. Poems that fall within this esthetic frequently use the "vision within a dream" motif as a metaphor for this illusion.

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http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/15675

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