I have to admit: Today in class, I had no idea who Kubla Khan was, so I went home and researched him.
Turns out, his name is Kublai Khan, and he was an emperor of the Mongol Empire. His grandfather, Genghis Khan, had united the nomadic tribes in Asia around 1200. Kublai became a ruler around the late 1200's, and was the founder of the Yuan Dynasty in China. He's famous for entering a new kind of rule, creating a court in the Beijing area, adn improving agriculture. He also met Marco Polo! The only reason he is famous, however, is the poem we read today.
I'd have to ask why Coleridge used his name to immortalize instead of any other?
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