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"Xanadu" is a song by the Canadian progressive rock band Rush from their 1977 album A Farewell to Kings. [1] It is approximately eleven minutes long, beginning with a five-minute-long instrumental section before transitioning to a narrative written by Neil Peart, which in turn was inspired by the Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem Kubla Khan.
Kubla Khan: or A Vision in a Dream (/ ˌ k ʊ b l ə ˈ k ɑː n /) is a poem written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, completed in 1797 and published in 1816.It is sometimes given the subtitles "A Vision in a Dream" and "A Fragment."
The lyrics of the song were inspired by the poem Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. In March 1985, the album track was abridged and remixed for release as the group's fourth UK single. While criticised at the time of release and afterward for being a song that glorifies debauchery, the lyrics (and video), just as Coleridge's poem, were ...
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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 ...
During Coleridge's 1793 summer vacation from Christ's Hospital, he stayed with his family members in Ottery St Mary, Devon. [1] Both "Songs of the Pixies" and the smaller "To Miss Dashwood Bacon", written during this time, refer to The Pixies' Parlour, a place near Ottery and to events taking place during Coleridge's vacation: the locals during that time dubbed Miss Boutflower as "fairy queen ...
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No where in the song does Peart address what the "Lost Xanadu" is - nor does Coleridge's poem for that matter. Wisdom89 03:12, 3 March 2007 (UTC) On the contrary, Coleridge addresses what Xanadu was in the very first lines of his poem: "In Xanadu did Kubla Khan/A stately pleasure dome decree."