Kubla Khan a Supernatural Poem - 8401 Words

| AbstractThis essay discusses the question of the transforming creative self and the aesthetics of becoming in Samuel Taylor Coleridge s Kubla Khan and Dejection: An Ode , by reassessing certain strands of Romantic visionary criticism and Deconstruction, which are two major critical positions in the reading and interpreting of Romantic poetry. The poetics of becoming and the creative process place the self in Coleridge s aesthetic and spiritual idealism in what I have called a constructive deferral, since none of his poetic texts demonstrates the totality of experience or the impossibility of conceptual and theoretical discourse.The aesthetic and spiritual advancement of the self delineates the self as conscious,†¦show more content†¦His texts are partial representations of his longings and as such not enclosed and finite entities. His philosophy of self shows it as dynamic, and his psycho-aesthetic treatment of this subject provides evidence for progress rather than sta sis or fixity.The term Deconstruction is a postmodern or post-structural [6] coinage, which has broken new ground on the problems pertaining to theoretical and practical criticism in literature. It is quite a difficult and complex term to define, but there are a number of distinctive characteristics attributed to it. From the writings of its exponents like Jacques Derrida, Paul de Man and Hillis Miller, [7] Deconstruction is seen as a radicalised form of postmodern or poststructuralist discourse on philosophy, linguistics and literature. Deconstruction is clearly at odds with Western idealism and logic; epistemologically, it is opposed to logocentric knowledge, and theologically, it is opposed to belief, faith, and spirituality. Yet, given that Deconstruction s basic premise is the subversion of or aversion to these, it is ironical that it is impossible to extricate itself completely from them.The roots of Deconstruction can be traced in the German idealist philosophy and Romanticis m. It is rhetorically oriented and contemplates knowledge and meaning as representations that are unavoidably enmeshed in the heterodox and contradictoryShow MoreRelatedComparison of the Supernatural in Coleridge’s Kubla Khan and Christabel3512 Words   |  15 PagesColeridge’s achievement as a poet rests on a small number of poems which can be divided into two diverse groups:- the daemonic group which consists of the three poems The Ancient Mariner, Christabel, and Kubla Khan and the conversational group which includes the poems like The Eolian Harp, Frost At Midnight, the irregular ode Dejection and To William Wordsworth. The later poems Limbo and Ne Plus Ultra mark a kind of return to the daemonic mode. The poems of the daemonic group bring out Coleridge’s preoccupationRead MoreEssay about Role of the Imagination for Romantic Poets1672 Words   |  7 Pagesother counters to play with but fixities and definites.’ He was said to see fancy as simply a à ¢â‚¬Ëœmode of memory’. Coleridge heavily employed the use of the ‘primary imagination’ within his work. His poetic imagination is exemplified within his poem the Kubla Khan. The vivid, mysterious and sensual imagery of ‘deep romantic chasms’(12) and ‘dancing rocks’(23) almost creates a utopian image for the reader, one that is arguably beyond human comprehension. Such use of imagery could be said to plunge theRead MoreEssay on Samuel Coleridges Poem Kubla Khan1122 Words   |  5 PagesColeridges Poem Kubla Khan In the poem Kubla Khan by Samuel Coleridge, language is used to convey images from Coleridge’s imagination. 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By conveying his imagination by using language, the vocabulary used by Coleridge is of great importance. The five lines of the poem Kubla Khan sound like a chant or incantation, and help suggest mystery and supernatural themes of the poem. Another importantRead More Imagination in the Rime of the Ancient Mariner versus Kubla Khan973 Words   |  4 Pagesusually wrote about those close to nature, and therefore, in the minds of the Romantics, deeper into the imagination than the ordinary man. Coleridge, however, was to write about the supernatural, how nature extended past the depth of the rational mind. In two works by Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan, both works regard the imagination as vitally important. 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His work revealed that Coleridge was influenced by the natural and intrigued by the supernatural, yet the concerns that he expressed within his works, â€Å"anticipating modern existentialism†[1], were innovative and daring and therefore managed to gain him a notorious reputation as a visionary. Even Shelley referred to Coleridge as a hoodedRead MoreAnalysis Of The Poem The Bridge 1402 Words   |  6 PagesLines 1-5 The poem begins with a fanciful description of Kublai Khan s capital Xanadu, which Coleridge places near the river Alph, which passes through caverns before reaching a dark or dead sea. Although the land is one of man-made pleasure, there is a natural, sacred river that runs past it. The lines describing the river have a markedly different rhythm from the rest of the passage:[30] This is notable because although Xanadu is a real place, there is no Alph river. It does not exist