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What’s Going on in “Kubla Khan”? In 1798, a poet named Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote the poem called “Kubla Khan”. In his preface, he stated that he had dreamt the poem, and wrote it down just as it was “preserved”. The speaker also stated that the poem is merely a fragment, it is not complete. “With the exception of about eight or ten scattered lines and images” that had been lost in the transition between …

…very mighty leader. In research done with help of the World Wide Web, it was found that Samuel Coleridge was addicted to a drug much like today’s Acid. Could that signify that Mr. Coleridge might have been on a “trip” when he wrote this poem, and that is why it remained unfinished and a fragment? Or quite possibly, it could be that Mr. Coleridge was just dreaming of the wonderful world of Kubla Khan.