Kingdom of Imagination, Kubla Khan Be Thy Ruler "Kubla Khan" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge is one of the most celebrated and debated works, poems and other, from the Romantic period in English Literature. Coleridge wrote this piece in the period from 1797 to 1798. It is largely speculated that this verse was induced by a drug slumber during which he dreamt up what he wrote about later. Many critics and readers argue to this day about the …showed first 75 words of 1323 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1323 total…exist, and where juxtapositions are made with a multitude of items. Coleridge uses the techniques of paradoxical imagery, juxtaposition of details and irony to induce a sort of trance on the readers, so they too, as he did before, imagine the amazing imagery that is contained in Kubla Khan. On the subject of imagination, Coleridge warns his readers, if one is not careful, one can be permanently stuck in a nightmare, and not a dream.