Samuel Taylor creates a powerful and expressive tone in her work, Kubla Khan. She accomplishes this mostly through her use of powerful descriptive phrasing, with many explanation marks and exaggerated, almost hyperbolistic diction, such as "demon lover", "savage", and "mighty" to express the grandeur and greatness of the poem's subject Kubla Khan.
I'd have to agree the most with the first statement by Amy Lowell, mostly because I believe that her classification of art as a medium to express oneself and react to emotionally high, or inspiring events though out life is true for most works. Look at works like "The Star Spangled Banner" written by Francis Scott Key, its one of the most inspiring and well known poems of all time, so inspiring that is our national anthem, and it all spawned from and event that Francis experienced in his life during the battle between the British and Americans at Fort McHenry. Seeing the American flag waving through the artillery fire, inspired him, and let him write out what he was feeling, with this his new-found sense of place and patriotism.
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