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"Kubla Khan" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge reveals the power of the imaginative poetry. This poetry has the ability to create kingdoms and paradise. In this poem Coleridge is expressing heaven and hell through his own eyes just as the aplostles did in the "Bible" and Milton did in "Paradise Lost".
The poem begins with a mythical tone, "In Xanadu did Kubla Khan/ A stately pleasure dome decree." The poem does not give specifics to the construction of the palace. It just states that Khan decreed the palace be built and then begins describing the palace. The poem's method of creating a vision of the "pleasure dome" is similar to the biblical tale of the creation of the Garden of Eden. As Eden was created by God, the "pleasure dome" created was by the power of Kubla Khan. The use of the word "decree" implies that it was Khan's will that created the pleasure dome.
The wonderful kingdom of the ancient Kubla Khan and the setting that surrounds it is described with heavenly,......

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