Kubla Khan is a poem composed in a state of "reverie", in fact, in its subtitle, it is described as "a vision in a dream" and the preface specifies that it was written in a sleep of 3 hours.

But, although the presence of these details seems to reveal that, Kubla Khan is not a dream-poem, in any formal sense. For Coleridge, dreams and poem have a logic, he organizes very well his works and also Kubla Khan is a consequence of the reconstruction of his dream.

It is difficult to understand what the poem is about. Kubla Khan seems to be a poem about poetry and creation in the first part where there is a mixture of rational and instinct. The second part signs the victory of the power of imagination. This concept is tied to Coleridge's manifesto in the Biographia Literaria, in which he distinguishes fancy from...