This document provides an overview of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and his poems "Kubla Khan" and "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner". It includes sections on Coleridge's biography and contemporaries Robert Southey and William Wordsworth. It then analyzes and compares the themes, plots and illustrations related to Coleridge's two poems.

1. Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s
“Kubla Khan” &
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Lisa Hager

2. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1772-1834

3. Robert Southey
1774-1843

4. William Wordsworth
1770-1850

8. “Kubla Khan”

11. “Kubla Khan”

12. The Rime of the
Ancient Mariner

13. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Gustave Doré
Plate 8: I Shot the Albatross

14. 1. Read the section
(each person reads to a period or
semicolon)
2. What happens in this section of the
poem?
3. How does this section explore the idea
of art or the poet?
4. Identify 2-4 lines that illustrate your
answer to #3