This presentation was by Wafa & Ibtsam. Romanticism + Kubla Khan.

1. Course Title: Poetry
Course Code & NO.: LANE 447
Course Instructor: Dr. Fatima Elyas
:Presented by
W afa Al-thibyani
Ibtisam Al-
ahmari

3. Romanticism
1830- 1785
Romanticism has very little to do with
things popularly thought of as "romantic,"
although love may occasionally be the
subject of R omantic art. Rather, it is an
international artistic and philosophical
movement that redefined the fundamental
ways in which people in W estern cultures
thought about themselves and about their
.world
T early Romantic period thus coincides
he
with what is often called the "age of
revolutions"--including, of course, the
American (1776) and the F rench (1789)
revolutions--an age of upheavals in
political, economic, and social traditions, the

4. Characteristics of
Romanticism
- T characteristics of Romantic poetry
he
are that it emphasizes feeling, and
imagination.
- Others feel that it emphasizes
individualism, freedom from rules,
spontaneity, solitary life rather then
life in society, and the love of beauty
and nature.

5. English Romanticism
T main stream of poetry in the eighteenth
he
century had been orderly and polished,
without much feeling for nature. H eroic
couplets were used for this verse, but various
writers had broken away from the form and
the thought. In spite of this, the publication of
the frits edition of the Lyrical Ballads1 ( 1798 )
came as a shock. T critics considered the
he
language too simple and the change too
violent. T important book the signal of the
his
beginning the romantic age -- was the joint
work of W illiam W ords Worth and Samuel
Taylor Coleridge, often known with Southey,
as the L ake P oets, because they liked the
lake district in the north west of E ngland and

6. English Romanticism
W ordsworth was a poet of nature, and
had the special ability to throw a charm over
ordinary things. Coleridge, on the other
hand, could make mysterious event
.acceptable to a reader's mind
Neither of them used the old language of
.poetry much
W ordsworth was so filed with the love of
nature that, in later editions of the Lyrical
Ballads, he said that the language of poetry
ought to be the same as the language of a
simple farm-worker. yet he could not keep to
this idea himself; his imagination led him far
beyond the life and thoughts of a
.countryman

7. .Coleridge in 1795
H was born on 21
e
.October 1772, in England
H died on 25 J 1834 ,
e uly
.in England
H occupation was Poet,
is
.critic, philosopher
H L
is iterary movement was
.Romanticism
H notable work (s) are
is
T Rime of the Ancient
he
.Mariner, and Kubla Khan

8. Kubla Khan
In Xanadu did K
”
ubla K han
A stately pleasure-dome decree:
W here Alph, the sacred river, ran
T hrough caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea.
So twice five miles of fertile ground
W walls and towers were girdled round:
ith
And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills,
W here blossomed many an incense-bearing tree;
And here were forests ancient as the hills,
E nfolding sunny spots of greenery.
B oh! that deep romantic chasm which slanted
ut
Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover!
A savage place! as holy and enchanted
As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted
! B woman wailing for her demon-lover
y

9. And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething,
As if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing,
A mighty fountain momently was forced:
Amid whose swift half-intermitted burst
H uge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail,
Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail:
And 'mid these dancing rocks at once and ever
It flung up momently the sacred river.
F miles meandering with a mazy motion
ive
T hrough wood and dale the sacred river ran,
T hen reached the caverns measureless to man,
And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean:
And 'mid this tumult K ubla heard from far
! Ancestral voices prophesying war

10. T shadow of the dome of pleasure
he
Floated midway on the waves;
W here was heard the mingled measure
From the fountain and the caves.
It was a miracle of rare device,
A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice!
A damsel with a dulcimer
In a vision once I saw:
It was an Abyssinian maid,
And on her dulcimer she played,
Singing of M ount Abora.
Could I revive within me
H symphony and song,
er
T such a deep delight 'twould win me
o
That with music loud and long
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11. I would build that dome in air,
That sunny dome! those caves of ice!
And all who heard should see them
there,
And all should cry, B eware! B eware!
H flashing eyes, his floating hair!
is
W eave a circle round him thrice,
And close your eyes with holy dread,
F he on honey-dew hath fed
or
And drunk the milk of P aradise

12. :Explains
This poem describes Xanadu, the palace of Kubla Khan, a Mongo
emperor and the grandson of Genghis Khan. The poem's
speaker starts by describing the setting of Emperor's palace,
which he calls a "pleasure dome." He tells us about a river
that runs across the land and then flows through some
underground caves and into the sea. He also tells us about the
fertile land that surrounds the palace. The nearby area is
covered in streams, sweet-smelling trees, and beautiful
forests.
Then the speaker gets excited about the river again and tells
us about the canyon through which it flows. He makes it into a
spooky, haunted place, where you might find a "woman
wailing for her demon lover." He describes how the river leaps
and smashes through the canyon, first exploding up into a
noisy fountain and then finally sinking down and flowing
.through those underground caves into the ocean far away

13. The speaker then goes on to describe Kubla
Khan himself, who is listening to this noisy
river and thinking about war. All of a sudden,
the speaker moves away from this landscape
and tells us about another vision he had, where
he saw a woman playing an instrument and
singing. The memory of her song fills him with
longing, and he imagines himself singing his
own song, using it to create a vision of Xanadu.
Toward the end, the poem becomes more
personal and mysterious, as the speaker
describes past visions he has had. This brings
him to a final image of a terrifying figure with
flashing eyes. This person, Kubla Khan, is a
powerful being who seems almost godlike:
"For he on honey-dew hath .fed/And drunk the
.milk of paradise

14. Major themes
:Theme of M and the Natural W
an orld
T interaction between man and nature is a
he
major theme for Coleridge. It's painted all
over "K ubla K han," as we go from the dome
to the river, and then from the gardens to the
sea. Sometimes he's focused on human
characters, sometimes on natural forces. In
fact, it's difficult to get away from this theme
in this poem. T hink of this tension as a tug-of
war between humans and their temporary
constructions (buildings) and the seeming
.permanence of nature

15. :Theme of Versions of Reality
Coleridge makes this one easy
for us since the subtitle of the
poem is "a Vision in a Dream."
T poem is meant to make us
his
feel like we are in an alternate
reality. W recognize all the
e
objects he describes, but the
images he creates move in
ways we don't expect. P eople
appear and disappear
strangely, just like in a dream
or a hallucination. T hink of it as
.a scary Alice in Wonderland

16. :Figures of Speech

17. Simile
Huge fragments vaulted like
rebounding hail (line 21)
Comparison of upward thrust of
the fragments to that of
rebounding hail
As if this earth in fast thick pants
were breathing
Comparison of the the earth to a
living, breathing thing
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18. Resources
http:/en.W
/ ikipedia.org/
wiki/
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http://www.sparknotes.com/poetry/coleridge/section
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http:/en.W
/ ikipedia. org/
wiki/ omanticism
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-http://www. enotes. com/kubla-khan-criticism/ckubla
khan- samuel-taylor-coleridge
http:/www.online-literature.com/
/ periods/php