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S.T. Coleridge is one of those romantic poets, who possessed strong sets of imaginary skills to build the stanzas of the poetry upon it. He was said to be addicted of opium. Though opium could be easily regarded as the best form of a wine, it has a special definition. According to the oxford online dictionary opium is a reddish-brown heavy-scented addictive drug prepared from the juice of the opium poppy, used illicitly as a narcotic and occasionally in medicine as an analgesic. And Coleridge is said to be consumed opium while creating one of his masterpieces, ‘Kubla Khan’.
It is said that he had fallen asleep after taking anodyne, which actually points to the opium. And he went to such a state where he started to watch dreams about the decree of a command of Kubla Khan. It is also said that before falling asleep Coleridge was reading about Kubla Khan. But it is the genius of Coleridge if he had created such a poem only by seeing a dream. Yes! It has been claimed in the pages of history that Coleridge wrote Kubla Khan after waking up from the dream.
He would have written somewhere around 300 lines but was interrupted by personnel from Porlock. It is not mentioned that what this person came for and what intentions he had. It is only said that Coleridge would have written the whole visionary of the dream that he watched, if he was not interrupted by this man. And from this point of view it could be assumed that the last lines are not actually the spontaneous lines, which Coleridge was writing from the beginning but the artificial ones to end the poetry in a satisfying manner.
He also might have persisted in denoting the fact that the poetry was the outcome of his strong visionary of imagination. And the distraction could simply denote the form of distractions that we receive in our life from different sources. So, it could also be a symbolism used and claimed by Coleridge as he never tended to talk materialistically. But like all other works of him, he had also maintained the charm of this poem by making it thematically rich. Pure imagination is one of the fortes of Coleridge and the first three stanzas perfectly denote this characteristic in the poem ‘Kubla Khan’. Though the context might seem like history, it is a work of imagination.
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