• Best of luck to the class of 2024 for their HSC exams. You got this!
    Let us know your thoughts on the HSC exams here
  • YOU can help the next generation of students in the community!
    Share your trial papers and notes on our Notes & Resources page
MedVision ad

Colerigde - How many poems? (1 Viewer)

Captain Gh3y

Rhinorhondothackasaurus
Joined
Aug 10, 2005
Messages
4,153
Location
falling from grace with god
Gender
Male
HSC
2005
PaleReflection said:
I was reading something about how when you take opium and go to sleep straight after, you don't remember your dreams, and that our sexually disfunctional friend Samuel must have been in a 'trance' to have imagined the world of Xanadu, making the title "A vision in a dream" inaccurate, lol.
He was sexually dysfunctional too?

Whoah, now my essay can be about drugs AND erectile problems :D
 

PaleReflection

i can teach you
Joined
Nov 11, 2003
Messages
671
Gender
Female
HSC
2005
Haha, yes apparently it was a side effect of the drug taking... I read a quote from his wife or someone about him being a horrible lover. I'm sure we can somehow relate Coleridge's imaginative journeys as being a result of his need to escape from his embarrasing problems in real life... as well as the excessive sexual imagery in Kubla Khan.
 

Captain Gh3y

Rhinorhondothackasaurus
Joined
Aug 10, 2005
Messages
4,153
Location
falling from grace with god
Gender
Male
HSC
2005
"The ejaculating chasm in KK is a symbolic reflection of Coleridge's poor performance in bed. Coleridge creates the imaginative journey to escape this reality and create a world where he can satisfy his woman"
 

what971

Now in Oriental Flavour!
Joined
Aug 13, 2005
Messages
1,645
Gender
Female
HSC
N/A
Um... yeah... So I can still use just one poem right?
 

SiZmOs

"Shaken, not stirred."
Joined
Jun 5, 2005
Messages
1,493
Location
Bass Hill
Gender
Male
HSC
2005
Captain Gh3y said:
"The ejaculating chasm in KK is a symbolic reflection of Coleridge's poor performance in bed. Coleridge creates the imaginative journey to escape this reality and create a world where he can satisfy his woman"
lol very good - A+ - band 6
 

Users Who Are Viewing This Thread (Users: 0, Guests: 1)

Top