In Kubla Khan, Coleridge describes a beautiful place using the words bright, blossom, and Enfolding sunny spots of greenery. The poem then takes another turn and describes a woman's love using words like savage and haunted. I think Kubla Khan celebrates the imagination AND caution against its indulgence. Coleridge could be telling the reader how imagination and beauty could possibly blind someone of the caution signs and the troubles that lay under the big surface of the pretty picture.
In Shelley's Ozymandias, I can identify three speakers: the narrator, the travelor, and the Ozymandias. The narrator introduces the sonnet who meets the traveler from an antique land. Antique could mean many things but in this poem I believe it has political or social meaning. The government is not thriving and possibly close to extinction. The travelor tells the tale of the city and the king, Ozymandias, who was a cold tyrannical leader. The city's description may be decribing the downfall of Ozymandias but I believe it could also be desribing the downfall of tyranny, madness, or darkness of the world.
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