In my opinion, "Kubla Khan" celebrates the imagination. In his pleasure dome, Kubla Khan enjoys life and is eternally happy. In the last line, Coleridge says he drinks the milk of Paradise- why would he be cautioning against the imagination? The only way for everyone to get to their own personal "paradise" is through their imagination. The Earth will never be a paradise- without imagination, we could never experience what that might be like. Throughout the whole poem, there is a general sense of indulgence and ornateness in Kubla Khan's world. Just because he indulgdes himself in ornate things does not make his paradise a bad place. Every once in a while, everyone needs to be indulgent.
In Shelley's "Ozymandias," I see four voices- the traveler, narrator, sculptor and Ozymandis. The narrator has a small role in the beginning of the poem introducing the traveler as someone he met in an "ancient land."
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