1. I think that Coleridge was originally planning to celebrate the power of the imagination, but ended up inadvertently cautioning against it. Coleridge's great amount of detail is, in some ways frightening and dream-like. In my opinion, "Kubla Khan" had the characteristics of an acid trip. If any given pot head had the poetic ability and lyrical wizardry that Coleridge had, we could call any strange psychological adventure, romantic poetry. Coleridge uses intimidating phrases like "Beware! Beware! His flashing eyes, his floating hair." This, to someone experiencing the effects of a hallucinogen, could seem very terrifying. Though Coleridge may have been trying to celebrate the amazing images he'd witnessed, personally he made me shy away from the power of his imagination.
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