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"Kubla Khan" is a romantic poem written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. It has been known that Coleridge was addicted to opium and that he actually saw a vision while he was "high" on opium. And out of this opium-induced dream the poem "Kubla Khan" was created. Coleridge uses a lot of poetic devices in this poem such as sounds, imagery, and symbols. All the elements of this poem contribute to its implicit argument, that Coleridge's …

…devices to show the satisfaction and misery that drugs could bring. Some of the devices that Coleridge uses are sound, imagery and symbolism. He combines the images and sounds in the poem to show how good and bad drugs can be. He describes beautiful images that are accompanied by horrible sounds or surroundings. His addiction is just like the beautiful palace with caves of ice. Where the pleasures of being high bring pain and torture.