![]() Coleridge himself contributed to the controversiality of his poem, by adding the famous preface to it, in which he claimed to have composed it in an opium induced dream. Readers who consider "Kubla Khan" a great poem, usually feel that this ecstatic quality is present in the poem readers who tend to regard it to be less than a major poem, usually have doubts as for the presence of this ecstatic quality. The ecstatic quality is, then, a perceived quality of "Kubla Khan" it is also a "regional quality", that is, a quality that belongs to a whole, but not to any of its constituent parts. When we say that "'Kubla Khan' is an ecstatic poem", we do not report the successful arousal of an ecstatic experience in the reader, but the detection of an ecstatic quality. ![]() This irruption, with the enormous energy that infuses this poem, generates what is frequently characterized as an "ecstatic quality". Many readers who believe that "Kubla Khan" is a great poem, feel that its greatness may have to do with the irruption of the irrational and of chaos into our rational and ordered world, with a force that is unprecedented in lyric poetry.
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