Monday, March 23, 2009

I believe that Kubla Khan is based on pure imagionation. Coleridge talks about and explains in depth on all different aspects of nature. Coleridge explains how strong one part of nature could be on one self. Such as a sacred river and how it could enable one's feeling. I feel as though this poem could be related to one's life. It could relate to someone's life who has a fast moving life. One's life whos always on the go, however it could also relate to someones life who is laid back. One's life who doesnt mind sitting back and watching whats going on around them. Coleridge brings out the gardens bright with sinuous rills, blossomed many incense-bearing trees and forests ancient as the hills enfolding sunny spots of greenery. That specific part to me makes me think of the good parts in life. With all the exciting and explanitory vocabulary used in those couple of lines can be broken down into much more. To either a fast life or a slow life the bottom line to me is never to indulge to much as once. Never to grab it all and not have any left for seconds because seconds might not be there when you go back for them. Coleridge cautions readers of the indulgement of one's imagionation. I believe this written to all people of different lives, because two different people can come together and be imagionative or adventerous but not to take in too much at once.

Shelley's Ozymandias begins with the three characters. The traveler, the narriator and Ozymandias. What I thought of when I read this is that the narriator is trying to get across to the reader that the traveler, who comes from a different and older land talks highly of something great. The traveler talks amazingly of a king. That king is said to be Ozymandias. It makes me think that Ozymandias is a higher power. Possibly an idol or a religious figure who is especially important to the traveler. The narriator could of experienced this in reality. He could of met a stranger and that stranger spoke greatly of a character who he made to look like such a amazing figure of a higher power then all of us. The narriator could be explaining his view of his experience to the reader.

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