"Kubla Khan", whose full title is "Kubla Khan, or a Vision in a Dream" is a poem written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. It is an expressive poem and helps to suggest mystery, supernatural, and mystical themes. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, author of the poem Kubla Khan, was born on 21 October 1772 in the town of Ottery St Mary, Devonshire. Coleridge was an English poet, critic and philosopher, as well as his friend Williamworth, were among the founders of the Romantic movement in England. Coleridge, considered Shakespeare's greatest critic, used language to express the images and images that were in his imagination in the poem Kubla Khan. Coleridge claimed that it was written in the autumn of 1797 on a farm near Exmoor, but it may have been composed during one of several other visits to the farm. It may also have been revised several times before it was first published in 1816. Coleridge claimed that the poem was. inspired by a dream but Porlock's composition or person interrupted the composition, or the piece. He said he was interrupted by this visitor from Porlock (a town in the southwest of England, nearby) while he was writing it. Kubla Khan is only 54 lines long and was never completed. Additionally, a quote from William Bartram is believed to have been the source of the poem. There is huge speculation about the meaning of the poem, some suggesting that the author is simply portraying his vision while others think there is a theme or purpose. Others believe it is a poem that highlights the beauty of creation. The lines of the poem Kubla Khan sound like a chant and help suggest the mysterious, supernatural and mystical themes of the poem. In the first two lines, Coleridge describes the "pleasure dome" of Xanadu. In Xanadu Kubla Khan decreed a majestic pleasure dome. Kubla Khan did not merely order, but decreed that a "majestic pleasure dome" be built. This dome is proof of how unnatural or unreal the place of Xanadu is: it has a ruler who ignores the unpleasantnesses that can be found in life. He uses his vocabulary to challenge and tease the imagination into seeing what he saw in his dream. In Xanadu there are no small streams, but "winding streams" and walls and towers do not enclose the gardens but are "girded around"'.