The poem “Kubla Khan” or “A Vision in a Dream”, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge was composed in 1797 and then published in 1816 and is one of Coleridge's most famous and controversial poems of the Romantic period. It is also known as the “Fragmentary Vision” and a copy of the manuscript can be seen on display at the British Museum in London. The poem itself has unusual rhythm, rhyme, simile and symbolism and has been the subject of controversy and discussion among poets in centuries past. Samuel Taylor Coleridge was a writer and poet who greatly influenced other poets. He suffered from depression and opioid addiction his entire life. Coleridge wrote the poem “Kubla Khan,” supposedly after waking from an opiate-induced dream. He admitted that it was a fragment of a poem because his work was interrupted and he was unable to finish writing the poem unable to remember the dream entirely. For centuries there has been controversy and criticism about the poem "Kubla Khan". Originally, critics of Coleridge's time did not find the poem even worthy of criticism. According to Poetry Criticism Volume 39, “When first published, many contemporary reviewers regarded the apparent poetic fragment as “nonsensical” or “below critical.” (Gale 119). In subsequent years and up to the present day, the poem "Kubla Khan" has received a lot of criticism which has made it a popular poem to be analyzed scholastically. This may be because Coleridge's lifestyle may have influenced people's reaction to his work. In particular, Coleridge is now considered a leader of the Romantic poetry movement. As stated in Poetry Criticism Volume 39, “most critics recognize that the images, motifs, and juxtaposed ideas explored in the poem are strongly representative of Romanticism…at the heart of the paper…and of readers with many of the same critical issues that confounded his contemporary reviewers. Its textual history remains unclear, Coleridge's introductory explanation of the poem's production is often considered dubious, and scholars just can't agree on what it "means" or whether it means anything at all. Most readers interpret "Kubla Khan" as an allegory of the creative process, relying heavily on a perpetuated romantic formulation of redemptive imagination. Although Samuel Taylor Coleridge suffered a life of debt and opioid addiction due to neurological and rheumatic pain, he produced great literary works. a groundbreaking work and key development of Romantic poetry. He was very meditative and also an expert critic of Shakespearean literature. Despite his setbacks, Coleridge's many successes have made him an icon for writers and poets throughout history.