An imaginative journey allows us to escape from the pragmatic routine of reality into uncharted depths fashioned by the mind. In "Kubla Khan", Samuel Taylor Coleridge envisions a metaphorical journey through Xanadu, a majestic and mystical utopia. He begins the poem with inverted syntax; "in Xanadu did Kubla Khan a stately pleasure dome decree." This is used to inform the reader that this is no ordinary journey. Coleridge uses imagery to depict a clear illustration …showed first 75 words of 265 total…

…showed last 75 words of 265 total…the pleasure dome floating "midway on the waves." The peace and tranquillity of Xanadu described in the first stanza is soon disturbed by a "ceaseless turmoil" Coleridge personifies the Earth's existence, describing it as though "this earth in fast thick pants were breathing" it continues until there is an explosion His description of Xanadu is Idyllic, but also savage. Just like in Kubla Khan. "This lime tree bower, my prison." Coleridge undertakes an imaginary journey. .