👉About Samuel Taylor Coleridge:

1. Romantic Poet.

2. Worshiper of Supernaturalism and Medievalism.

3. Author of the three famous Supernatural poems - 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariners', 'Christabel' and 'Kubla Khan'.

All these poems were written when intimate friendship existed between Coleridge and Wordsworth.

👉Title of the poem:

               "Kubla Khan"

Or "A vision in a dream: A Fragment."

👉Date of Composition and Publication:

According to the Poet, the dream came to him in the Summer of the year 1798 and published in 1816.

👉Kubla Khan:

Kubla Khan is known as Kublai Khan in history. He is the Grandson of Chengiz Khan who lived between 1216-1294 and was the founder of the Chinese dynasty of the Mongols. He conquered many countries including China and formed a great empire in Asia and Europe.

👉About the poem:

The poem is called -

1. A Dream Poem - This poem is the fruit of his dream.

2. A Fragment of Poem- It is the part of a Supposed poem of the poem of two or three hundred lines but finally it was possible to produce only 54 lines. In this sense, it is called an incomplete poem and a fragment of poem.

👉Background:

Dream Poem:

'Kubla Khan' is a dream fragment. The whole poem came to Coleridge one morning when he had fallen asleep on his chair over Purchas's 'Pilgrimage', a book of travels, and upon awakening, he began to write the poem hastily.

Fragment of poem:

When the poet was writing down his imagination in the form of verse, he was interrupted by a visitor from Porlock and detained him for one hour. Then after composing 54 lines, the rest of the poem slipped out from his memory.

👉Central idea of the Poem:

According to the poet himself, when he was reading a passage of a travel book, Purchas's Pilgrimage, where was written "Here the Khan Kubla commanded the palace to be built, and a stately garden thereunto. And thus ten miles of fertile ground were enclosed with a wall."