'Kubla Khan' - Poetic Structure, Hypnotic Quality and Cognitive Style

This book endorses Coleridge''s statement: "nothing can permanently please which does not contain in itself the reason why it is so". It conceives ''Kubla Khan'' as of a hypnotic poem, in which the "obtrusive rhythms" produce a hypnotic, emotionally heightened response, giving false security to the "Platonic Censor", so that our imagination is left free to explore higher levels of uncertainty. Cri...