In the poem Kubla Khan the elements of the nature are described, such as river, hills, gardens, and so on. Here, the author wanted to represent “external nature and human thoughts affection”. The mention of a savage holy and enchanted place and it relation with the characters in the poem is a good example of it. The inclusion of a maid playing her instrument shows a part of the characteristics of Romanticism: the need to free men from oppression. The woman in this poem might play music as a way to get rid of bad feelings that oppressed her.
The poem is also simple because each line is adaptable for readers to comprehend the main idea of the context in the poem. Most of the lines have a meaning which can be able to move readers’ feelings and affections. For that reason, each line of the poem can produce a feeleng of sadness in expressions like “sunless sea”and a “lifeless ocean” It can also produce happiness in expressions like the miracle of “a sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice”.
2 comments:
Hi Sebastian,
I find your entry very interesting. The fact that you´ve mentioned the "maid playing her instrument" as a representation of the need to free men from oppression is a key characteristic of Romantic poetry which you´ve captured very well. Also, you´ve explored the idea of simplicity dicussed in one of the citations by Coleridge by mentioning the words and expression that the author uses to make the poem appealing to the reader. The expressions you´ve chosen to show sadness and happiness are a good example of Coleridge´s "Romanticism".
Well done,
Claudia
Hi my dear Friend:
I agree with you in the idea of simplicity that the poem has, but remember that the idea of the narration is to go beyond the words. It’s possible that each line of this poem has a simple and comprehensible message, but you have to understand what’s happened behind a “sunless” or the “lifeless ocean”.
I like a lot the point of the maid playing an instrument, because I feel that you explain us how you feel playing your bass guitar. You told us your experience and showed that you really felt the poem very closed to your life or reality
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