Coleridge
Kubla's dreaming author
Coleridge refers to Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834), the English Romantic poet and critic best known for "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" and "Kubla Khan." His name evokes dreamlike imagery, opium-influenced visions, and literary collaboration with Wordsworth.
The poem had a Coleridgean quality—vivid and hallucinatory.
Metered poetic passage
- stanzaPoem's line grouping
- rhymeMatching terminal sounds
- meterDevice that measures usage
- balladNarrative poem or song
ode · lyric · albatross · supernatural · mariner · Xanadu · opium · fragment
- sublimeAwe-inspiring greatness
- natureInherent quality or disposition
- imaginationFaculty for forming ideas
- emotionComplex psychological state
transcendence · spontaneity · genius · organicism · pantheism · sensibility · idealism · individualism
Beyond natural explanation
- visionaryImaginative planner of futures
- dreamSleeping mind's narrative
- opiumNarcotic from scored seedpods
- laudanumOpium dissolved in alcohol
trance · prophecy · enchantment · spectre · ghostly · otherworldly · phantasm · reverie
Theory of beauty
- imaginationFaculty for forming ideas
- fancyElaborate or decorative
- willing suspension of disbeliefAccepting implausibility for enjoyment
- symbolRepresentational mark or sign
allegory · literary theory · philosophy · criticism · unity · judgment · taste
Philosophy of existence's nature
- transcendentalBeyond ordinary experience
- KantGerman Enlightenment thinker
- reasonBasis or justification
- understandingMental comprehension of something
phenomenon · consciousness · self · subject · object · polarity · synthesis · absolute
verse
Metered poetic passage
ballad · ode · lyric · albatross · supernatural · mariner · Xanadu · opium · fragment · vision
Wordsworth
- sublimeAwe-inspiring greatness
- natureInherent quality or disposition
- imaginationFaculty for forming ideas
emotion · transcendence · spontaneity · genius · organicism · pantheism · sensibility · idealism · individualism · revolution
supernatural
Beyond natural explanation
- visionaryImaginative planner of futures
- dreamSleeping mind's narrative
- opiumNarcotic from scored seedpods
laudanum · trance · prophecy · enchantment · spectre · ghostly · otherworldly · phantasm · reverie · nightmare
aesthetics
Theory of beauty
- imaginationFaculty for forming ideas
- fancyElaborate or decorative
- willing suspension of disbeliefAccepting implausibility for enjoyment
symbol · allegory · literary theory · philosophy · criticism · unity · judgment · taste
metaphysics
Philosophy of existence's nature
- transcendentalBeyond ordinary experience
- KantGerman Enlightenment thinker
- reasonBasis or justification
understanding · phenomenon · consciousness · self · subject · object · polarity · synthesis · absolute · idealism
- AuthorsShakespeare, William Shakespeare, Mark Twain, Twain, F. Scott Fitzgerald
- British LiteratureShakespeare, Dickens, Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, Austen
- English LiteratureShakespeare, Dickens, Jane Austen, Bronte, Chaucer
- poetrypoem, poems, poetry, verse, verses
- British WritersShakespeare, Dickens, Austen, Tolkien, Rowling
- Classic AuthorsShakespeare, Dante, Homer, Chaucer, Milton