Part 1

I thought Kubla Khan was just ok. I felt like it was just a bunch of descriptions. I don't quite understand what the Chinese Emperor Kubla Khan has to do with anything. I understand that Coleridge chose him to write about but I don't know why. The main idea I got from it was at the beginning it is a very pleasant and beautiful place. The imagery used was pleasing. Especially line 8 " and there were gardens bright with sinuous rills,". Later in the poem the descriptions go from this warm inviting place to this scary war like nightmare. I couldn't get a good grasp as to what the poem was about because I felt that it painted many pictures of this place but I couldn't understand what about the place was so amazing.