Coleridge’s Kubla Khan starts with an image of nature. It represents harmonious landscapes of a wild panorama and it riches a state of pleasure as the first stanza goes by.
Undoubtedly this piece of poetry tries to awake our inner and pure emotions. As the poems lapses one begins to feel immerse into the poem, into the images it reflects, and unconsciously in the very same picture. Imagination and emotions are closely linked and even though reason is not part of the poem’s concept, it is also surrounding it not as something reasonable to believe in but it allows you to think and capture the intellectual beauty inside and through these bunch of passionate words.
What I most liked about this poem is that it touches you in a way you cannot easily describe. We could agree it is simple in the way it reflects the natural perspective already mentioned before, but that is the mayor issue: how something simple is so difficult to explain at the same time?
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Hi Pablo,
I was missing your "entry". I actually sent a comment to everybody´s entry on Sunday as deadline was Friday 12.00. Anyway, here goes my comment.
As you´ve very well described it, nature is represented through landscapes and the wild. But, the most important issue is how the images represented through "passionate words" make the reader react, which emotions are triggered, how these give rise to the appreciation of beauty through an almost physical experience of the senses. The fact that the poem made you feel "touched" in a way that you can´t explain is probably one of the best ways to describe what peotry means. You are right in that sometimes something which is supposed to be simple is difficult to explain. Have you always managed to explain and understand your feelings, your experience of beauty, love, sadness, happiness, etc.?
Claudia
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