Another Romantic theme was Orientalism. With the expansion of trade with the East, tales of exotic places very different to England stimulated the imaginations of the Romantic poets. Here's the first verse of Coleridge's poem "Kubla Khan". Notice the rich, exotic description (helped along with a little opium, no doubt).
“Kubla Khan. Or, A Vision in a Dream, a Fragment” (S.T. Coleridge)
(the first verse)
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
(the first verse)
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree :
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
With walls and towers were girdled round :
And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills,
Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree ;
Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.
For the full poem:
(http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/stc/Coleridge/poems/Kubla_Khan.html)
(http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/stc/Coleridge/poems/Kubla_Khan.html)
23 comments:
thank you my dear teacher to write Coleridge's poem.Really it is very good. I could not understand at the beginning, but I read it again. In romantic age, poets mostly dealt with nature ,and we can see it in this poem too. Coleridge was able to write what he could see,and write.
HATİCE ERDOĞAN
The nature is described in an excellent way in this poem.
While I was reading it,I also imagined this place.Not all the poems make me feel relaxed ,but this poem made me feel like that!
Kubla Khan is a poem which is considered incomplete like whihch tell about east as understood from its name (Kubla Khan). It is apoem which carries magical elements in it. We can easily see the words wrapped the magic of Coloridges. In fact, I think the all poem is like a strange and magic picture...
Romantic period poets were really affected by the nature.Their ability to description should be appreciated.The picture above the poem is very fantastic:)also we are very familiar with orientalism.I could not understand the poem much but the picture describes everything.
Şeyda Çeşmeci
when frst I saw this picture I remember the zeus. because there was a film zeyna. in this film teher was place like this picture.
that is, the picture tells us the romantic period very well. I admitted that I didn't understand the poem.
That is a relaxing poem;now i am thinking about the summer holiday;flowers,sea,sunset,green scenes etc.Love the poem and love the summer:))
while you are looking the photo and reading the poem, you go far away from here.. how imaginative and effective photo it is.. emotions and nature shaped the poem in exotic way..description is clear and interesting.. ı like poems or stories about the east.. they can be very intersting. and ı think ıt is one of them.
Firstly, the picture takes reader's attention;the nature that we aren't sometimes aware of is printed in a wonderful way.i can say that each line made me feel as if i were there.Explanations and structures are clear enough to understand.
The poem begins with a description of a magnificent palace built by the Mongolian ruler Kubla Khan during the thirteenth century.The juxtaposed images, motifs, and ideas explored in the poem are strongly representative of Romantic poetry. The work represents the common feature of Romantic poetry, in which landscape is typically viewed as the symbolic source and keeper of the poetic imagination. the cricisms about poems ultimate meaning confuses my mind.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem "Kubla Khan" takes its title from the Mongol and Chinese emperor Kublai Khan. It uses images from nature to describe intense pleasure through the metaphor of a palace. For Coleridge, imagination is creation, and he shares romantic concepts of imagination, and he does this very successively..
The picture is vey nice and it becomes more meaningful with the poem.I liked the poem and the picture very much. The picture helps me understand the poem better.
Yasemin YILMAZ
At first, I couldn't understand the poem, and I searced it from the Internet. Now I will write my comment. The nature was described successfully and effectively. While reading I felt as if I was looking at the scenery. There is highly imagination.
His sense of nature is exceptional.Orientalism is the field of study I appreciate his diligence.We also will not forget hıs works in the Balkans.The mutinies aroused in these places stems from him.We will recall forever.
Coleridge's poems are related to nature as we understand by looking at the picture. In this poem he describes a place that is really fantastic and in which people want to live.for example; I want to live there
The place that Coleridge wrote in this poem is very impressive...When I read it first I think it is a bit difficult to understant,but I read it again trying to understand what he wanted to say.Then,I realized the beautiy of the nature that he wrote...
Nature is always an inspritation for poet.Coleridge potrays the nature from his the deep heart.Nobody can deny his remerkable talent.
I could'nt understand all of the poems at first , it begins with as description.In this poem Coleridge show us the Romantic fondness for mystery the supernatural .There is a focus on nature in this poem , we can understand this from the photo:)
the images, motifs and ideas explored in the work are representative of Romantic poetry
Especially for western people, the east is always the subject matter and they are affected by the important people. This poem portrays the Coleridge's vision.
It is odd that after reading Kubla Khan, then he falls asleep and in his sleep, the images appear. As a resuld he writes this poem. Do you know he was addicted to opium. what a story!!!!!
It gives us exoticism, a figure of great human power and accomplishment, the great khan, humbled in the presence of nature.
Coleridge gives the important features of the east in his work -Kubla Khan-. And he identifies the east with its nature with this work. Perhaps, he writes the east so excellant and in an imaginay way for only his curiosity.Moreover the concepts used show the features of the Romantic Period.
I first read the Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and I adored it because it was a useful narrative poem . People after reading the poem, think again that they should love all the creatures the God created and then I read the second poem by Coleridge and it is Kubla Khan. The poem is about exotic and luxurious East. I had read in a journal that Coleridge suffered physical and emotional pain during his life and became addicted to opium. He claimed that this poem came to him in an opium dream. I loved most the descriptions of the nature in the poem...
The title gives the first impression of egzotic nature embellished with witty sentence.My feeling about his work is no matter what you think,you should think in a way of flamboyant product.Nature is our initial thought of beautiy.
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