Both "She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways" and "Kubla Khan" have distinctive settings. Referencing specific details, explain how a sense of place is used to construct meaning within the poems. Your answer should be at least 250 words.

In Wordsworth's poem, the landscape is almost like a miniature in order to convey the modesty with which Lucy lived her life: she is like a violet among the moss, and like a star in an almost starless night; hr existence is barely noticeable; and although these elements of nature with which the poet compares them may seem negligible, Lucy's worth becomes very evident when she is no longer there. The landscape in Coleridge's poem, on the other hand, emphasizes the greatness of Kublai Khan: there are vast forests, measureless caverns, a powerful river (in contrast with the mild spring of Wordsworth's poem) that bursts the rocks to symbolize the Khan's fierceness in war; contasts are shown in the sunny dome where caves of ice can be found, and also in the fierce nature versus the gentleness of the Abysinian maid gently playing hthe dulcimer.