Kubla Khan

After reading the poem “Kubla Khan” I related the message to what men are doing now to nature. First, the poem mentions a saint river which flows through obscures caverns unknown by men. Then it refers to a woman which certainly represents the walls and towers interrupting and surrounding the river, that river that later returns and detroyes the city in order to keep flowing just as it was at the beginning.

From my point of view, the poet is just trying to express what he feels and how he sees all the changes that are caused by men’s work. That is why I chose the first quotation which says; “Poetry is an art…of representing, in words, external nature and human thoughts and affections, both relatively to human affections, by the production of as much immediate pleasure in parts, as is compatible with the largest sum of pleasure in the whole”. To me, this quotation deals with the idea of expressing the deepest feelings of human nature on a paper and no matter how you show them through a poem but the more pleasure you put into it the more art you are doing. The author got that pleasure from drugs, that is how he got motivated to write and that was the way to relate external nature to human thoughts.