I think that "Kubla Khan" cautions against it's indulgences, but also celebrates them. "Kubla Khan" uses words like bright & blossom to describe a beautiful place. "Kubla Khan" also uses words such as savage & haunted to describe a woman's love. In "Kubla Khan" Coleridge gives the example of how beauty can blind a person of the flaws underneath a seemingly perfect exterior.
In "Ozymandias", by Shelley, I can identify 3 main speakers. Ozymandias, the traveler, and the narrator. The narrator first tells the sonnet to the traveler with a political meaning behind it.The traveler than tells the sonnet to Ozymandias, a leader, who is very much like a dictator. The sonnet is mainly telling of the downfall of seemingly evil government.
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