What was it believed that Samuel Taylor Coleridge was experiencing when he wrote the beautiful and very well-known poem "Kubla Khan"?
A) An acid trip
B) A morphine stupor
C) An opium high
D) A cocaine high

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge is famously believed to have been under the influence of opium when he wrote "Kubla Khan." He claimed that the poem came to him in a dream while he was in an opium-induced state, but was interrupted while writing it down, leading to its incomplete state.

What Was It Believed That Samuel Taylor Coleridge Was Experiencing