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Explain supernatural elements in Kubla Khan

Explain supernatural elements in Kubla Khan
Kubla KhanST Coleridge

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      The poem Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, which was written after an opium-induced dream, contains many supernatural elements. The very first line “a vision in a dream, a fragment” suggests that it is a vision and not reality so the things mentioned in the poem will not be real.

      • The poet says that River Alph flows which is scared. Thus it is related to some divine power.
      • Next, there are “caverns measureless to man” that flow “down to a sunless sea.”
      • There is a “deep romantic chasm with ceaseless (never-ending) turmoil”
      • There is a “holy and enchanted” place where a “woman” wailed “for her demon lover”.
      • There are “ancestral voices prophesying war”
      • Finally, the poet talks about some paradise.

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