Kubla Khan
...hat his mind created a world that he could feel. He then awoke and quickly started to write his visions down on paper. The theme of the poem is that the mind sometimes flows into places of inspiration and creativity. He makes the visions he has come alive with the figurative language. The fact that he wrote a poem about his vision, that is actually about how his mind is working shows the reader just how spontaneous the human mind can be. The use of strong figurative language represents how the mind works better than any other device in the poem because metaphors and similes can be implied on the mind. In lines fifteen and sixteen the cavern is said to be “as holy and enchanted as e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted by woman wailing for her demon-lover!? This is saying that the mind can work almost in a twisted manner to create concepts and ideas that are savage and not just peaceful and happy like outside the cavern in Xanadu. The creativity and inspiration was illustrated beautifully in lines eighteen and nineteen with the simile “As if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing, a mighty fountain momently was forced? It can be implied that inspiration and creativity are the heavy breaths of the mind, forced out like fountains in different proportions. The river itself is the largest metaphor in the poem. It goes through all the ac...