Imaginative journey, including coleridge

             Journey may suggest the idea of, prolonged traveling of a person to pass from one point to another. Journey is an inevitable and unavoidable aspect of life, that shapes who we become as a person, through the experiences witnessed and thus in turn the wisdom gained upon that journey. Wisdom is received through the discovery of experience and knowledge that can only be collaborated upon a journey. Wisdom enables us to comprehend life in a way that is above rational thinking and thus authors commonly use the imagination to express both the tangible and intangible concepts of journey.
             This understanding of journey is supported by numerous texts including Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Kubla Khan" and "Frost at Midnight", Robert Frost "The Road Not Taken", Ovids "The Four Ages", and "Contact" directed by Robert Zemeckis.
             "Kubla Khan" is very indicative of the Romantic ideal which emphasizes the subjective, the irrational, the spontaneous, the transcendental, and the imagination. The Romanticism movement had a deepened appreciation for the beauty of nature and the bias for emotion over reason, and thus Coleridge aims to make sense of the world through poetry using means other than the typical rational mentality.
             In the case of Coleridge's "Kubla Khan" his imagination was stimulated through a Laudanum drug induced sleep whilst reading Samuel Purchas's account of the command of "Kubla Khan" the ruler of, 13 Century China and builder of the palace pleasure gardens. This greatly inspired the imaginary journey that Coleridge's dreams embarked upon and which he attempted to recount in his poem "Kubla Khan".
             Since the poem was written without the assistance of a conscious effort it can hence be considered a recount of the personas imagination and an insight into his mentality. As a Romantic poet Coleridge was engaged by the splendid beauty of nature " In Xanadu did Kubla Khan, A stately pleasure dome decree; Where Alph, the sacred river,...

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