Poetry of Coleridge and Shelley

In your opinion, does “Kubla Khan” celebrate the imagination or caution against its indulgence? To whom might Coleridge be writing and for what purpose(s)?

1. In "Kubla Khan" Colerigde is celebrating the imagination and the caution against his indulegence because while he describes this vision that he had, he tries to reveal in a way, that he wants to resist the indulgence but cannot. It is too strong for his own good. He describes the contrast between I believe Coleridge is writnig.



Even in the brief space of a sonnet, Shelley suggests a number of narrative frames. How many speakers do you hear in "Ozymandias"? What does each of these voices seem to say to you (or to others) as listeners?

2. In Shelley's sonnet, I hear the voices of three people. The first voice I hear is the narrator, who is telling a story about his travels, when he came across another man. The second voice I hear is the man that the narrator meets. He tells the narrator about a scuplture that represents a man that once lived who held great power. The third voice I hear belongs to the man that the second voice speaks about. Of course, his name is "Ozymandias", the man who held power a long while before the two gentlemen's existence. "Ozymandias" was also known as Ramesses the Great, a pharoh of the nineteenth dynasty of ancient Egypt. All of the voices are speaking to those to come after thier time on Earth has ended.