https://padlet.com/tegoodwin8464/e3pk3v1ek35c Historical and Cultural Context en-us 2017-12-12 15:42:56 UTC 2017-12-14 03:15:00 UTC hello@padlet.com tegoodwin8464 https://padlet.com/tegoodwin8464/e3pk3v1ek35c/wish/215469766 Coleridge was the leader of the British Romantic movement. He mostly wrote on politics, religion, and philosophy. He attended Jesus College at the University of Cambridge and dropped out due to heavy drinking. Later in his life he became addicted to opiates and Kubla Khan is said to be an opium induced dream that he had. ]]> 2017-12-12 15:48:50 UTC https://padlet.com/tegoodwin8464/e3pk3v1ek35c/wish/215469766 tegoodwin8464 https://padlet.com/tegoodwin8464/e3pk3v1ek35c/wish/215478598 2017-12-12 16:03:11 UTC https://padlet.com/tegoodwin8464/e3pk3v1ek35c/wish/215478598 tegoodwin8464 https://padlet.com/tegoodwin8464/e3pk3v1ek35c/wish/215478704 During the time that this was written Kubla Khan, ruler of the Magnolia empire, had talked about building a new palace. It is said that Coleridge took an opium and went to sleep and dreamt about the palace. When he woke up he wrote it down and thats how the poem Kubla Khan came about. ]]> 2017-12-12 16:03:23 UTC https://padlet.com/tegoodwin8464/e3pk3v1ek35c/wish/215478704 tegoodwin8464 https://padlet.com/tegoodwin8464/e3pk3v1ek35c/wish/215480313 2017-12-12 16:06:05 UTC https://padlet.com/tegoodwin8464/e3pk3v1ek35c/wish/215480313 tegoodwin8464 https://padlet.com/tegoodwin8464/e3pk3v1ek35c/wish/215481613 The imagery in this poem is what makes it so vivid. Without the vivid use of language that he uses we wouldn't be able to picture this palace that he dreamt about. He describes a sacred river that runs so far "through caverns measureless to man/ Down to a sunless sea". "So twice five miles of fertile ground" were filled with flowers and other plants. He describes the palace as "holy and enchanted". The way he speaks makes it easy for us to visualize the palace. ]]> 2017-12-12 16:08:23 UTC https://padlet.com/tegoodwin8464/e3pk3v1ek35c/wish/215481613 tegoodwin8464 https://padlet.com/tegoodwin8464/e3pk3v1ek35c/wish/215481727 2017-12-12 16:08:35 UTC https://padlet.com/tegoodwin8464/e3pk3v1ek35c/wish/215481727 https://padlet.com/tegoodwin8464/e3pk3v1ek35c/wish/215650737 Alliteration, or the repetition of the same consonant sounds at the beginning of words, appears in numerous lines. Examples include "Kubla Khan," "measureless to man," "sunless sea," "five miles of fertile," and "sunny spots." The use of Alliteration adds a musical, singsong quality to the poem. Coleridge relies heavily on alliteration in the poem fragment in order to help build his dream vision of the Orient. ]]> 2017-12-13 00:42:24 UTC https://padlet.com/tegoodwin8464/e3pk3v1ek35c/wish/215650737 https://padlet.com/tegoodwin8464/e3pk3v1ek35c/wish/215652108 "Kubla Khan" is famously incomplete, and thus cannot be considered a strictly formal poem -- yet its use of rhythm and the echoes of end-rhymes is masterful, and these poetic devices have a great deal to do with its powerful hold on the reader's imagination. It's meter is a series of iambs, sometimes tetrameter and sometimes pentameter. The poem also incorporates line-ending rhymes everywhere in an interlocking way that builds to the poem's climax. ]]> 2017-12-13 00:58:41 UTC https://padlet.com/tegoodwin8464/e3pk3v1ek35c/wish/215652108 https://padlet.com/tegoodwin8464/e3pk3v1ek35c/wish/215652962 The Yuan Dynasty was a Mongolian dynasty that reigned from 1271 to 1368. The kingdom encompassed the vast majority of present-day Mongolia and China. The Yuan Dynasty was conquered and subsequently established by Kublai Khan, a powerful Mongolian King. Shangdu, aka "Xanadu," was Kublai Khan's northern capital, from which he ruled in the summer months. Marco Polo famously visited Shangdu in 1275. Samuel Purchas's writings about Xaindu in his 1625 encyclopedia inspired Coleridge's poem in 1797. 

In the late 18th century, there arose in Europe an intellectual and artistic movement known as "romanticism." The "romantics" were known for their emphasis on powerful emotions as a source of truth, as well as a desire for intense aesthetic experiences. In many ways, romanticism can be seen as a corrective reaction to the Age of Enlightenment, the shift toward rationality that dominated Western Europe during the 18th century. Romantic artists discarded reason and objective truth in favor of beauty, imagination, sublime experience, and the "pursuit of inner vision." ]]> 2017-12-13 01:07:46 UTC https://padlet.com/tegoodwin8464/e3pk3v1ek35c/wish/215652962 https://padlet.com/tegoodwin8464/e3pk3v1ek35c/wish/216032745                                https://voicethread.com/share/10113469/]]> 2017-12-14 03:13:57 UTC https://padlet.com/tegoodwin8464/e3pk3v1ek35c/wish/216032745