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The poem's self-proclaimed fragmentary nature combined with Coleridge's warning about the poem in the preface turns "Kubla Khan" into an "anti-poem", a work that lacks structure, order, and leaves the reader confused instead of enlightened. [58] However, the poem has little relation to the other fragmentary poems Coleridge wrote. [59]
The "person on business from Porlock" was an unwelcome visitor to Samuel Taylor Coleridge during his composition of the poem "Kubla Khan" in 1797. Coleridge claimed to have perceived the entire course of the poem in a dream (possibly an opium -induced haze), but was interrupted by this visitor who came "on business from Porlock " while in the ...
The Crewe manuscript is the only manuscript copy of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem Kubla Khan. [1] It is a holograph manuscript (i.e., written in Coleridge's own hand), from some time between the poem's composition in 1797 and its publication in 1816.
Kubla Khan: Or, A vision in a dream. A Fragment. "In Xanadu did Kubla Khan" 1798 1816 Recantation: Illustrated in the Story of the Mad Ox "An Ox, long fed with musty hay," 1798 1798, July 30 Hexameters. ('William my teacher,' &c.) "William, my teacher, my friend! dear William and dear Dorothea!" 1799 1851
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Draft of "Kubla Khan" (1797; 1816) The Romantic poets were more profoundly affected by Letters Written in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark than anyone, except perhaps Godwin. The poet Robert Southey, for example, wrote to his publisher: "Have you met with Mary Wollstonecraft's [travel book]? She has made me in love with a cold climate, and frost and ...
Thematically the poem is one of Coleridge's most cohesive constructs, with the narrative plot more explicit than previous works such as the fragmented Kubla Khan which tend to transcend traditional composure. Indeed, in many respects the consistency of the poem – most apparent from the structural formality and rhythmic rigidity (four ...
A sequence of two or more words forming a unit. In the poem “Kubla Khan” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the words “pleasure-dome” are a phrase read not only in this poem, but also in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein when she uses also uses the phrase. [15] periodical literature peripetia persona personification phronesis picaresque novel ...