Although Wordsworth and Coleridge were both Romantic poets
and personal friends, their style and approaches to literary composition differed.
Wordsworth's "Prelude" is written in blank verse, using very simple colloquial language
and emphasizing autobiographical subject matter. He tended to romanticize the beauties
of the ordinary and everyday life.
Coleridge, on the other
hand, in Kubla Khan, is using an irregular but rhymed ode form, taking as its subject
matter a dream vision of an exotic eastern monarch. He is more of a Platonist than
Wordsworth, evoking an ideal world of beauty created in the mind of the artist. His
language and imagery are far more ornate than those of Wordsworth, and his work has
greater overt literary and artisitc influences, and less emphasis on the pastoral and
the daily life of rural England.
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