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''''Kubla Khan''''' is a poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge , completed in 1797 and published in ''Christabel, Kubla Khan, and the Pains of Sleep'' in 1816. According to Coleridge's Preface to ''Kubla Khan'', the poem was composed one night after he experienced an opium influenced dream after reading a work describing the Tartar king Kublai Khan . Upon waking, he set about writing lines of poetry that came to him from the dream until he was interrupted by a person from Porlock . The poem could not be completed according to its original 200-300 line plan as the interruption caused him to forget the lines. Although the specific details of Coleridge's Preface are debatable, he most likely composed ''Kubla Khan'' during autumn 1797 but left unpublished and kept for private readings until 1816 when, on the prompting by George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron George Gordon Byron , it was made available to the public.

'''''Kubla Khan''''' is a poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge , completed in 1797 and published in ''Christabel, Kubla Khan, and the Pains of Sleep'' in 1816. According to Coleridge's Preface to ''Kubla Khan'', the poem was composed one night after he experienced an opium influenced dream after reading a work describing the Tartar king Kublai Khan . Upon waking, he set about writing lines of poetry that came to him from the dream until he was interrupted by a person from Porlock . The poem could not be completed according to its original 200-300 line plan as the interruption caused him to forget the lines. Although the specific details of Coleridge's Preface are debatable, he most likely composed ''Kubla Khan'' during autumn 1797 but left unpublished and kept for private readings until 1816 when, on the prompting by George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron George Gordon Byron , it was made available to the public.

The poem is different in style and form from other poems composed by Coleridge. While incomplete and subtitled a "fragment", its language is highly stylized with a strong emphasis on sound devices that change between the poem's original two stanza s. The first stanza of the poem describes Khan's pleasure dome built alongside a sacred river fed by a powerful fountain. The second stanza of the poem is the narrator's response to the power and effects of a Habesha people Abyssinian maid's song, which enraptures him but leaves him unable to act on her inspiration unless he could hear her once again. Together, they form a comparison of creative power that does not work with nature and creative power that is harmonious with nature.

The poem is different in style and form from other poems composed by Coleridge. While incomplete and subtitled a "fragment", its language is highly stylized with a strong emphasis on sound devices that change between the poem's original two stanza s. The first stanza of the poem describes Khan's pleasure dome built alongside a sacred river fed by a powerful fountain. The second stanza of the poem is the narrator's response to the power and effects of a Habesha people Abyssinian maid's song, which enraptures him but leaves him unable to act on her inspiration unless he could hear her once again. Together, they form a comparison of creative power that does not work with nature and creative power that is harmonious with nature.