It flung up momently the sacred river.
Five miles meandering with a mazy motion.
Through wood and dale the sacred river ran,.
Then reached the caverns measureless to man,.
And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean:.
And 'mid this tumult Kubla heard from far.
Ancestral voices prophesying war!.
The shadow of the dome of pleasure.
Floated midway on the waves;.
Where was heard the mingled measure.
From the fountain and the caves.
It was a miracle of rare device,.
A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice!.
A damsel with a dulcimer.
In a vision once I saw:.
It was an Abyssinian maid,.
And on her dulcimer she played,.
Singing of Mount Abora.
Could I revive within me.
Her symphony and song,.
To such a deep delight 'twould win me.
That with music loud and long.
I would build that dome in air,.
That sunny dome! those caves of ice!.
And all who heard should see them there,.
And all should cry, Beware! Beware!.
His flashing eyes, his floating hair!.
Weave a circle round him thrice,.
And close your eyes with holy dread,.
For he on honey-dew hath fed.
And drunk the milk of Paradise. .
The poem known as Kubla Khan is one of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's best poems. This poem can be broken up into three main parts. The first part of the poem is a vision of utopia or a magical place, a paradise. Kubla Khan was a Mongolian ruler who ruled an empire in the early 1260's. This poem consists of many poetic devices including onomatopoeia The first few lines of the poem mainly describe how perfect everything is, a vision of beauty. At first the poem describes how his garden is a vision of beauty but soon after the vision is destroyed by a woman screaming at the top of her lungs. Kubla Khan speaks of a woman who appears in his dream who sings a legendary paradise like Khans The third part of the poem basically describes how Khan wishes he could make the town which he lives in, into that legendary paradise that the woman in describes. A absolute utopic place. Personally I think this poem is a lot like life.
One widely accepted analysis states that the "Kubla Khan" is nothing more than a fragment. ... The "Kubla Khan" has also been interpreted as having a religious connection. ... This writer's opinion is that Coleridge wanted the "Kubla Khan" to have a shaded meaning. ... This is perhaps why the "Kubla Khan" is incomplete. ... It is debated whether or not to dismiss the idea and view the "Kubla Khan" as a completed work. ...
Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge Kubla Khan written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1797 or 1798 and later published in 1816 uses a vivid imagery, alliteration and a form of symbolism to convey a paradise like version of the landscape of kingdom. In the poem nature takes up a major portion of the poem as he describes the dream world of Kubla Khan. ... The over conclusion in "Kubla Khan" is that it highlights the power to control, but then reminds us on the power of imagination and the dream world Khan. ...
Kubla Khan Samuel Taylor Colderidge the oriental. ... For Kubla Khan, the entire poem, in fact, is of pure imagination. It mainly describes the palace decreed by Kubla Khan. ... A notion of violence can be found throughout Kubla Khan. ... Kubla Khan Samuel Taylor Colderidge endures. ...
The poem I chose to explore based on its imagery is "Kubla Khan" written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. "Kubla Khan" is a mixture of delightful images that Coleridge writes about symbolically. ... The first figure or agent in the land of Xanadu, is Khan, a character immediately identified as being important and powerful: "In Xanadu did Kubla Khan/ A stately pleasure dome decree" (ll. 1-2) The Khan appears to be the ultimate warrior for his words shape his utopian reality. It is Khan, who produces such an enchanting paradise in which he protects and roams just as God would. ... Khan's...
Kubla Khan is an amazing example of imaginative thought associated so closely with the Romantic Poets. Samuel Coleridge presents a narrative style text in Kubla Khan with a birth, life and death theme with each it's own stanza. ... The language used here is very dramatic continuing the sense of delight found in Kubla Khan's second stanza. ... An oppostitional reading to the poem Kubla Khan is that it was not so much an authentic emotive and imaginative poem, but more the drug-induced ravings of Samuel Coleridge, who one day drifted into a fantasy that was Xanadu. ... Lucy in...
A poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley is called Ozymandias. Ozymandias is seen as romantic because it challenges the power of kings. We are introduced to the poem by the poet by having a statue explained and described to us. The statue though has been demolished and only its legs stand. The statue has now ...
Khubilai Khan the Wise Emperor Note: He is also known as: Kubilai, Kublai, Kubla The largest empire of all time was the Yuan Dynasty and its leader was the ingenious Khubilai Khan. ... Khubilai Khan excelled at making intelligent political choices. ... Khubilai Khan's clever political decisions allowed him to attain success. ... Khubilai Khan found various ingenious ways to unify his empire. ... Khubilai Khan had a vision of the whole world, united under Mongol rule. ...
To Coleridge, the rapture of writing is equivalent to the rapture of sexual stimulation, hence the sexual imagery throughout "Kubla Khan". ... When he returns to finish his creation, he is unable to recollect the vision, and so "Kubla Khan" is a fragment. ...
Yuan- 1279-1368, the period of Mongol rule over China initiated by the conquest of the Southern Song (Sung) dynasty by Kublai Khan (also known as Khubilai or Kubla). ... Under the leadership of Genghis Khan (also known as Chinggis) and then of his descendants, the Mongols in the 13th century carved out an empire stretching from what is now Korea and western Russia in the north to Burma and Iraq in the south. ...
