It has been suggested by Elisabeth Schneider (in Coleridge, Opium and "Kubla Khan", University of Chicago Press, 1953), among others, that this prologue, as well as the Person from Porlock, was fictional and intended as a credible explanation of the poem's seemingly fragmentary state as published.[3] The poet Stevie Smith also suggested this view in one of her own poems, saying "the truth is I think, he was already stuck".[4]