The essence of Coleridges romanticism lies in the dexterous rendering of the supernatural phenomenon.

However, Kubla Khan is directly involved with the supernatural than Christabel or The Ancient Mariner. Kubla Khan represents poets of all ages, and the absoluteness conveyed by his name fails to be transferred to his creation-between the person and the performance falls the shadow. The poem begins in Xanadu, a place in the east, evoking the spirit of birth and creation. Xanadu thus becomes the land of imagination and Alph the sacred river becomes his holy muse. The Romantics preoccupation with the myths and the mystic is echoed in the very choice of the imagery-Kubla Khan was a legendary Tartan king, who orders his dome to be built beside the river Alph, a river in Greece, which runs through caves of ice that recalls the image of the Amarnath. Later we have the Abyssinian maid, singing of mount Abora, that incidentally is the symbolic creation of mount Amara, an Abyssinian mountain. The atmosphere of supernatural is created mainly by the description of the pleasure dome and the surroundings in which it stood. The river Alph, flowing through caverns measureless to man, suggests realism which is vouchsafed only to a poet. Kublas dome is a story of romanticism, accommodating twice five miles of fertile ground/With walls and towers were girdled round: Once again, there are simultaneous images of creation and proportion and its vulnerability. The dome needs to be protected, and therefore is a fall of the poetry. Kublas dome claims to capture both the garden of innocence and the forest of experience and thus is Coleridges assertion that the earthly paradise the poet creates is superior to the paradise man has lost. The word fertile prompts a psycho-sexual experience- the entire first part correspond to an act of sexual union as the poet seeks to be impregnated with the spirit which would cause the womb of the dome. The savage place is the site where the poet dissolves, diffuses, dissipates in order to recreate and is therefore holy. In the above lines, we are unable to recognize the poets glory to the fullest and hence Coleridge conveys it through the sense of supernatural. Many critics have opined that the demon lover is the supernatural solicitation of poetry through imagination, the woman is as if the poet himself, revelling in the glory of being able to procreate perfect poetry. Nature seems to be an objective correlative for the eruption that is occurring within the poets mindAnd from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething As if this Earth in fast thick pants were breathing A mighty fountain momently was forced:.