Coleridge: Nature and Poetry

I think that even though Samuel T. Coleridge wrote his poem " Kubla Khan: Vision in a Dream" being high, it is a great and very symbolic poem. Poetry is represented in simple things, like nature and human thoughts and affections. We can find those characteristics in Coleridge's poem, and it is very noticeable that the representation of nature is focused on, for example, the greenish that we can find in many places, love and death.

Also poetry makes us feel beyond the written words and makes us be able to put ourselves into the poem’s own history. For example when Coleridge says:

“But oh! that deep romantic chasm which slanted
Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover!
A savage place! as holy and enchanted
As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted
By woman wailing for her demon-lover!”

By those lines I can see religion ideas which are mixed with love conceptions. It really incorporates simple elements such as chasm, hill and moon, which are very characteristic of poetry.

I truly believe that imagination plays an important role in poetry. When you write it and when you read it. Those quotations try to make us think beyond words, and Coleridge's poem allows us to flow our minds...