Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Resources

Kubla Khan Assignment: 

Kubla Khan Explained
Kubla Khan Full TEXT

Kubla Khan, read by Benedict Cumberbatch

Instructions:

• Listen to the poem
• Read the poem
• Draw the landscape of the poem
• pay close attention to what is an actual description (imagery) and what is a metaphor or simile.
• Label all items if you don't feel confident I will recognize them.
• This is NOT about artistic skill, but about accuracy.

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Assignment:

Ryme of the Ancient Mariner FULL TEXT

Instructions:

• For each section
• Read section in group
• Summarize each verse in your notes in plain English (this includes the italicized summaries)
• Look for characteristics in the poem from your list. 
• Write down 5 per section with a short paragraph (could be a sentence) explaining why. 
• Use quotations from the text.
• Turn in:
• One document per group
• handwritten
• contains
• summary
• characteristics list

Pandemonium (2001)

A movie about Coleridge and Wordsworth