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“Coleridge’s Re-vision and Disillusionment” Studies in English Language & Literature. 37.4 (2011): 147-65. The preface and subtitle of “Kubla Khan” are aesthetic and thematic elements that evoke various critical perspectives and interpretive responses. The preface, as a supplement distinguished from the aesthetic experience of the poem itself, is enhanced to an explanatory addition to the imaginative poem. Numerous critics have examined the rhetorical dimensions of the preface and analyzed the ways in which it provides the reader’s interpretive horizon. Though Coleridge endeavors to internalize his poetic figures into a unified vision of himself, he eventually denies himself true identification with his own poetic ideal. His desire for the ideal only leads to his recognition of the imaginative lack and inadequacies. His inability to identify Khan and the poet as ideal agents of the imagination through artistic creativity results in his poetic disappointment and disillusionment. (Keimyung University)