im_gone said:
I'm having trouble with linking techniques with a concept of journey especially little techniques like alliteration cuz they seem to not connect with the jorney concept. Like for Kubla Khan ive got a study sheet which it says there is alliteration, onomatopoeia, assonance and rhyme which produce a creative interplay of sound and movement. Can anyone help me link these techniques with imaginative journey. Also if anyone has got good sites for techniques in Coleridge poems, stimulus booklet or related material can you post that up as well.
Thanks
Yes indeed all those language techniques do produce a creative interplay of sound and movement....
What S.T.C does is transport our minds into his mind, into an imaginative vision or story, where the audience (or readers) can relate to the concepts, themes, ideas along with the thoughts being expressed.
the constant flow of words and sentence structure allows our minds to be psychologically stimulated ...
for example where he uses enjambement
" Where Alph, tha sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea"
Here he personifies the river (i.e. the scared river ran)...
he uses sibilance ( Down to a sunless sea)... and as i stated ..enjambement...
now all these, when connected and read at the one time, create a setting... a constant flow of motion... and the sound of the sunless sea... which allow our minds to be transported into an imaginative vision which ST.C creates for us in these specific lines...