"Kubla Khan" as a Supernatural Poem

In English Literature Coleridge is one of the extraordinary writers of Romantic Movement. His contemplations are philosophical. In any case, his style is straightforward and clear. His unique field is Supernaturalism. He expounds on extraordinary components and occasions and depicts what is inconspicuous and past nature. However, he portrays them so that they seem regular and life like. In the field of world English Literature supernaturalism makes Samuel Taylor Coleridge unique.

Coleridge's Kubla Khan is the best example of unadulterated verse, an outcome of sheer fancy. It is a fantasy rhyme, a rhyme of unadulterated enchantment. The Poem embodies Coleridge's dominance over powerful poetry.

Supernatural Elements in the Poem "Kubla Khan"

Coleridge makes an atmosphere of mystery in Kubla Khan mainly by depicting the pleasure dome and the surrounding in which it stood. The poet speaks:

Where Alph, the sacred river, ran

Through caverns measureless to man

Down to a sunless sea.

The river Alph is straightforwardly identified with the Greek god Alpheus, who the waterway god. As per Greek folklore, an agnostic faith, the god Alpheus had fallen in love with Arethusa the girl of Nereus and a Hesperides. This again adds to the supernatural excellence of the rhyme. Coleridge's way of thinking in life was exceptionally romantic thus virtually the entirety of his poems epitomizes the romantic thought, particularly "Kubla Khan". This romantic rhyme utilizes splendid symbolism and illustrations to differentiate the goals of romantic agnosticism with frequently in amicable Christianity. The dream of agnosticism is the primary thought presented in the poem. The powerful reference to "Alph" or Alpheus as it is historically known.

Coleridge's essential element of supernaturalism is suggestiveness. The facts confirm that an exceptionally clear and realistic depiction of the encompassing of the pleasure-dome is specified in the poem however the supernatural component is intriguing. Coleridge is a brilliant craftsman for blending the natural and supernatural with the goal that the likely and the unrealistic interfuse. Here are lines which for sheer suggestiveness and riddle are maybe magnificent:

A savage place! as holy as enchanted

As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted By woman wailing for her demon-lover.

Another significant element of Coleridge's conduct of the supernatural is an elusive mixing of the natural and the supernatural. The powerful wellsprings being momently constrained from the profound romantic abyss is certainly devoted with supernatural liveliness however the comparisons utilized to depict it are recognizable to the point that we acknowledge the fountain as very characteristic:

Amid whose swift half-intermitted burst Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail, Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail

And 'mid these dancing rocks at once and ever It flung up momently the sacred river.

But in spite of the mystery and surprise aroused in the poem, the whole explanation is psychologically correct because when the writer is in a state of fury, he is actually like a magician. Out of this artistic madness come the gems of truth and gorgeousness. Touches of realism have been added, even to the explanation of the chasm and the enormous fountain. Coleridge uses the similes — recovering hail and chaffy grain below the thresher's flail — which are similar to our lives and most natural. If Kubla Khan hears prophesies of combat in all the tumultuous sound, it is not un-realistic. It is real to human experience. After all he was a courageous soldier.

Coleridge made the supernatural as the region and haunt of his brilliance and shows the manner to its most creative use. The supernatural richness of the poem arrives at its top towards the end where Coleridge depicts an artist secured a creational craze. Idyllically propelled he turns into a superhuman with glimmering eyes and skimming hair like Sun God Apollo. In a condition of surprise and dread individuals watch the mysterious hover round the writer as though he “on honeydew hath fed and drunk the milk of paradise". Thus we get that supernatural components spill out of each line of Kubla Khan which provides it an ethereal allure.