miércoles, 20 de agosto de 2008

Kubla Khan

Inside Kubla Khan, I could perceive a description of external natural and how all natural elements affect human affections throughout the poem for example: “The sacred river, ran through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea". This poem shows us how natural can inspire people to think and create a lot of things in order to represent in words or in pictures their thoughts and feelings.

According to what kind of feelings a poem can produce in readers, when I read Kubla Khan I could imagine all things that the author describes because he presents a world like a parades where everything was made by God’s hands “and close your eyes with holy dread, for he on honey-dew hath fed, and drunk the milk of paradise”. Also, it was a moment when I read a verse where the author says “by woman wailing for her demon-lover!” I was able to feel and reproduce this image in my mind, and I felt so sad and depress because it is a cruel figure of woman who is falling in love with someone who is not a good person at all.

In conclusion, it is incredible how a poem produces in readers a lot of different kind of feelings like: happiness, sadness, annoyance, etc; at the same time. However, poems are also a good way to show and represent the authors’ point of views about how they see and perceive the world and all things that happened inside it during their life.

3 comentarios:

Claudia Trajtemberg dijo...

Hi Barbara,
I´m happy that Kubla Khan made you experience such different feelings. After all, what makes a good poem is how it makes the reader feel through it. You mentioned nature and its effect on people expressed with an array of different words and expressions. What characteristics of Romanticism would you say you find in this poem?
Cheers,
Claudia

Sergio dijo...

Hello Bárbara, I like your interpretation of the poem. It's so good that an artistic creation makes people travel amongst different sensations, feelings, reactions, or whatever it produces in people. It's marvellous to see how words build up so many different worlds.
Best wishes,
Sergio.

Bárbara Medina dijo...
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