... K. Ferenchick confirms this speculation by quoting that "this work could not have been written, as Coleridge testified, under the influence of a narcotic. According to Paul Magnunson's essay "Kubla Khan: That Phantom-World So Fair" Coleridge clearly labored extensilvely with the meter and imagery in this poem in his attempt to create a linguistic work of art." By comparing the elements of highly ... ...

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... the people helpless with nowhere to go for guidance and possibly faith. A supernatural element also characteristic of the Romantic Poet is evident in England 1819 with the emergence of the "Phantom" in the last stanza. The is figure could have possible the "last hope" for the troubled people and would save them from the political and religious turmoil that they were ... ...

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