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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]
A Wish. Written in Jesus Wood, Feb. 10, 1792. Written in Jesus Wood, February 10, 1792 "Lo! through the dusky silence of the groves," 1792 1893 An Ode in the Manner of Anacreon. "As late, in wreaths, gay flowers I bound," 1792 1893 To Disappointment. "Hence! thou fiend of gloomy sway," 1792 1895 A Fragment found in a Lecture-room.
Though later critics have disputed both Lowes' findings and method, The Road to Xanadu, [8] according to English author Toby Litt, is "a book of a lifetime": "Its argument, that Coleridge had one of the most extraordinary minds the world has ever seen, is there on every page"; it "is one of the books which helped me understand what writing is."
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 ...
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The poem discusses the evils of slavery and laments the fate of slaves on the Middle Passage transportation route. Rare anti-slavery poem by Coleridge at risk of leaving UK, according to DCMS Skip ...
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Xanadu is the name of Charles Foster Kane's stately mansion in the 1941 film Citizen Kane. "Xanadu" is the name of a track off of the Rush album A Farewell to Kings, that references the poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Xanadu is the name of a 1980 film starring Olivia Newton-John.