Which poem of Coleridge is an opium dream ?
Correct answer: A. Kubla Khan
- A. Kubla Khan
- B. Christabel
- C. The Ancient Mariner
- D. Ode on the Departing Year
Explanation
Coleridge described Kubla Khan as having been composed after an opium-induced dream, which accounts for its vivid, fragmentary, supernatural imagery. Christabel and The Ancient Mariner are also supernatural poems, but they are not identified as the opium dream.
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