Kubla Khan is kool, yo.

I'm a pretty big fan of this poem by Coleridge. Anyone can make this statement, but his work in Kubla Kahn greatly resembles the way I write on occasions. At least the part we were able to read online. XD

That said, I'm a little skeptical about the near-unanimous conclusion we made about how his poem was influenced, or at least how it wasn't: through a mind trip while high. I haven't been high before, but depending on my state-of-being and how consistent it is (and whatever emotional/physical influences are present at the moment I'm writing), my writing can be influenced, and it can come out just as it did in Kubla Kahn, provided his explanation was true. I've come up with an idea and begun writing, then something would come up that I had to work on for a bit, and by the time I came back to write the rest, I had already lost a majority of my idea. There's one piece of work I did where it played out almost like this: the idea was presented and extrapolated to an extent, a point is nearly made, and then an interlude-turned-reflection would finish the rest, looking back in confusion at the previous section of the work and questioning what the final point would have ever been.

It's entirely possible that the poem was influenced by, well, the influence. But I won't say either way, just to remain neutral. And lazy. :P