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Published: 31.10.2003.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
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  • Essays '"Kubla Khan" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge', 1.
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"Kubla Khan" is a romantic poem written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. It has been known that Coleridge was addicted to opium and that he actually saw a vision while he was "high" on opium. And out of this opium-induced dream the poem "Kubla Khan" was created. Coleridge uses a lot of poetic devices in this poem such as sounds, imagery, and symbols. All the elements of this poem contribute to its implicit argument, that Coleridge's addiction to opium brought him pleasure and suffering.
One of the devices that Coleridge uses to show the pleasures and hazards of his addiction is sound. One of th…

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