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The sleep of this story is said by Coleridge to be a sleep of opium, and Kubla Khan may be read as an early poetic description of this drug experience. The fact that the poem is generally regarded as one of Coleridge's best is one reason for the continuing interest and debate about the opium's role in his creative output and in Romanticism in ...
The Romantic era in Britain was, in addition to a time of growth for literature and poetry, a time of increased opium use. Interspersed among importation of opium from the Middle and Far East countries, Britain itself produced a meager amount of opium and utilized it, at least initially, as medicine and also as an ingredient in patent medicines to treat a variety of ailments and diseases.
The Poem of Ecstasy (Le Poème de l'extase), Op. 54, is a symphonic poem by Russian composer and pianist Alexander Scriabin written between 1905 and 1908, [1] when Scriabin was actively involved with the Theosophical Society. [2] The 20-minute work premiered on 10 December 1908 in New York City.
Collins based his description of the drug's effects on his own experiences with it. [47] Laudanum appears in Charles Baudelaire's prose poem The Double Room, published in his collection Le Spleen de Paris in 1869. [48] In the novel Anna Karenina (1878) by Leo Tolstoy, the eponymous character becomes addicted to laudanum.
Pages in category "Poems about drugs" ... The Wild Party (poem) This page was last edited on 21 January 2023, at 07:45 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...
"Sleep and Poetry" (1816) is a poem by the English Romantic poet John Keats.It was started late one evening while staying the night at Leigh Hunt's cottage. [citation needed] It is often cited [by whom?] as a clear example of Keats's bower-centric poetry, yet it contains lines that make such a simplistic reading problematic, [clarification needed] such as: "First the realm I'll pass/Of Flora ...
Most of us spend upwards of eight hours per day in bed, either relaxing, sleeping or attempting to sleep. The bad news: dead skin cells, dust mites, germs and body oils that can cause allergies ...
The poem was originally written by Rosen, who worked at the Stage Delicatessen on Seventh Avenue in midtown Manhattan.It was written from the point of view of the drug, and explained in graphic detail by first-person narrative the effects heroin addiction has on people who use it, from fashion models neglecting their looks, to "the most virile of men losing their sex," to committing murder, to ...