Can Drugs Inspire Great Poems? An Analysis of Coleridge’s “Kubla Khan“

Inspiration can be cruel, and artists often feel lost without it. And when it won’t show up, which will happen, creative types turn to a myriad of restorative methods: running, isolation, reading, and, most infamously, drugs. But while drugs alter people’s minds, do they actually lead to great art? Join us for a reading, summary, and analysis of the most famous drug induced poem of all time: Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “Kubla Khan.“ Or, a vision in a dream. A Fragment. In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately p