Throughout the nineteenth century and even during the first quarter of the twentieth century "kubla Khan" was considered, almost universally, to be a poem in which stron feelings overwhelm any trace of sense. By far the most intriguing of questions asked about the most intriguing of poems is "what does it mean?" That is if, indeed, it has or was ever inteded to have any particular meaning. A thorough analysis of the poem, however, proves …
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…feel that this interpretation may have been the most precise way to interpret the poem . After all, Coleridge has given various details which are almost unmistakably sexually oriented. The pleasure dome existed only in the mind of the author. It was created to make a safe haven for his sexual fantasies and once the author had finished it, the dome no longer existed but rather became a memory of his "wet dream", which was interrupted.