Samuel Taylor Coleridge.ppt

The first stanza describes the beauty and mystery of Xanadu with rich and exotic images. ['zænə.du:] 行宫,世外桃源
The second part shows the savage and violence of life outside of the “pleasure dome.” It describes nature and images of evil and war mixed together.
learning philosophy
Friendship: Charles Lamb, Robert Southey, William
Wordsworth (1800 in Keswick)
Ideological content: egalitarianism, utopian society,
Kubla Khan, Biographia Literaria, The Constitution of Church and State
Coleridge’s cotta
Writing Style of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
There are 3 pre-dominant features ----
1 amazing imaginations
2 symbolism
3 manifold figurative techniques
Position
"The influence of Coleridge, like that of Bentham, extends far beyond those who share in the peculiarities of his religious or philosophical creed. He has been the great awakener in this country of the spirit of philosophy, within the bounds of traditional opinions. He has been, almost as truly as Bentham, 'the great questioner of things established'; for a questioner needs nor necessarily be an enemy." (John Stuart Mill, from Coleridge, 1840)
Kubla Khan
The poem Kubla Khan by Samuel Coleridge describes images from the poet’s imagination. The wonderful kingdom of the ancient Kubla Khan and the setting that surrounds it is described with dreamlike vividness. In this poem Coleridge is expressing heaven and hell through his own eyes just as Milton did in 'Paradise Lost'.
Kubla Khan
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan 忽必列汗在上都曾经 A stately pleasure-dome decree: 下令造一座堂皇的安乐殿堂： Where Alph, the sacred river, ran 这地方有圣河亚佛流奔， Through caverns measureless to man 穿过深不可测的洞门， Down to a sunless sea. 直流入不见阳光的海洋。
Pantisocrary (failed)
Marriage: Sarah • Frick (sister of Southey’s wife) Health:Байду номын сангаасgot Rheumatic pain, and took opium Works: Remorse, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,
1772------1834
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Kubla Khan
Born:21 October,1772 in Devon, England
Died: 25 July, 1834(aged 61)
Family Background: father of vicar (died in 1781
Kubla Khan
"Kubla Khan; or, A Vision in a Dream: A Fragment" is a poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, which takes its title from the Mongol and Chinese emperor Kublai Khan of the Yuan Dynasty. Coleridge claimed that the poem was inspired by an opium-induced dream but that the composition was interrupted by a person.
when he was 8 years old)
Education: 1782 in Charity School of Christ's Hospital
in London 1791 in Cambridge university 1793 graduated without taking a degree 1798 went to Germany (with Wordsworth)for