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Leslie Ringgold
World Literature II
February 3, 2006

"Kubla Khan or a Vision in a Dream, a Fragment" is Samuel Taylor Coleridge's expression of the inability of language (particularly poetry) to adequately convey meaning. The circumstances surrounding the way in which the poem was supposedly written are very important in understanding why Coleridge refers to the poem as a "fragment". The dream that the poet has "in which all the images rose up before him as things" represents every individuals ability to be inspired by imagination and is a metaphor for the indescribable beauty that the artist seeks to bring form to in their chosen medium. While at first they are ecstatic and in a frenzy to start their work, interruptions from the world inevitably come into play and the glory of the original idea deteriorates and is distorted and will never again be fully grasped. Coleridge enlightens the reader:
Then all the charm
Is......

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