Imagination and Narrative

The poem Kubla Khan is definitely celebrating imagination. The way Coleridge describes the images in the poem helped me as the reader to envision this place he was talking about. He describes the children of Mother Earth (gardens, rivers, etc.) full detail which enables the reader to really imagine it. I feel as though Coleridge is trying to reach out to the imagination of the audience in general due to all of the description and imagery he is using.

Since reading Shelley's poem, I was able to depict three voices. All three are describing the scene of the poem in different ways, but all relating to one another. I was kind of like the different voices that are depicting the thought process.They describe the statue of Ozymandias after it has been destroyed, and the sorrow that people are being filled with. I was left with a sense that Ozymandias was some sort of leader, considering the statue was made of him. However, the destruction of the statue lead me to believe that he did not have victory of whatever he had been leading. The tone of all three voices expresses who Ozymandias was and what he was looked upon. this poem also seem to depict power being overtaken, especially since the statue was destroyed. From the visuals we saw when the statue was demolished overseas it showed the overthrow of the government power.