ENG 3318 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Percy Bysshe Shelley, Kubla Khan, Antireligion
19 Apr 2017
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How far imagination can take us: how do we know what we know. Expresses tensions in higher lyric romantic works: memorize final line. S4: cycles of life: power of mountain inexplicable, awe-inspiring, l. 120-25 heard this before. Kubla khan similar patterning and rhyming. William burke whatever is fitted to excite ideas of pain, and danger, that is to say capable of feeling : power, obscurity, vastness, darkness and even ugliness. Has a rhyme scheme (unlike mont blanc: ode: tribute to abstract concept. Celebrating immaterial beauty: hymn: there are religious terms within the poem, but not a traditionally religious poem (s3 and s5 seem to be anti-religious) Title: beauty describes something that"s physical oxymoronic: religious in tone, meditative in content. Line 1-2: awful shadow similar connotations to awesome : appealing to sublime, tone suggests ambiguity, emphasize unseen and inconstant ominous, indicative of unseen beauty.
