Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem "Kubla Khan" is described by the author himself as a fragment, a part of a whole that is no longer retrievable from his memory. The sub-title for the poem, "or A Vision in a Dream, a Fragment," supports the fact that Coleridge indeed felt that the poem was incomplete. Despite this opinion, however, the poem seems whole to the dreamer. "Kubla Khan" seems to parallel Coleridge's reality rather closely when compared …showed first 75 words of 1106 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1106 total…lack of understanding, he feels people may find him crazed if he were to begin to expound on the virtues of his idyllic setting, since only he understands their importance and only "he on honey-dew hath fed, / And drunk the milk of Paradise" (lines 53-54). WORKS CITED Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. "Kulba Khan" in Prentice Hall Literature/ The English Tradition. Englewod Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1989. Vassos, John. Critical Survey of Poetry. New Jersey. Salem Press. 1982.