Images that strike the eye and images strike the ear, both positive and negative.

In Kubla Khan, we have images that strike the eyes. They are-

•Most importantly, the imagery of the name “Kubla Khan”, negates the mysterious, trance like effect that Coleridge is actually seeking for.

•The visual descriptions- “gardens bright and sinuous rills”, “incense bearing tree”, “sunny spots of greenery” and “forests ancient as the hills” provide an effect of some dreamy recollection. These stimulate the vision of Xanadu, which is again an imaginative world of the poet.

Some auditory images presented in the poem are-

•The halting assonance in “As if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing”, provides with the effect of breathing.

•The poem comes with alliteration in the introductory lines with each line closing with the words- “Kubla Khan”, “pleasure-dome decree”, “river, ran”, “measureless to man” and “sunless sea”.

•The juxtaposition of the images- “waning” and “wailing woman”, imparts the effect of a wailing sound.

•In the line- “Five miles meandering with a mazy motion”, there is an alliteration of the “m” sound and produces a kind of motion sound as it describes.

•The repetition of the “h” and “d” sounds in the lines- “His flashing eyes, his floating hair! Weave a circle round him thrice, And close your eyes with holy dread, For he on honey-dew hath fed, And drunk the milk if Paradise”, create a haunting and doomed image of the narrator.