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  2. Alph River - Wikipedia

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    Alph River) is a small river, flowing in summertime, on the northern side of Koettlitz Glacier, Scott Coast, Antarctica It rises from Koettlitz ice at the upper end of Pyramid Trough and from south to north includes Pyramid Ponds, Trough Lake, Walcott Lake, Howchin Lake, and Alph Lake. [ 1 ]

  3. Kubla Khan - Wikipedia

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    The imagination, as it appears in many of Coleridge's and Wordsworth's works, including "Kubla Khan", is discussed through the metaphor of water, and the use of the river in "Kubla Khan" is connected to the use of the stream in Wordsworth's The Prelude. The water imagery is also related to the divine and nature, and the poet is able to tap into ...

  4. Alph - Wikipedia

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    Alph may refer to: Alpheus River, a river on the Peloponnese; Alph River, a river in Antarctica; Alph Lake, a lake in Antarctica; Alph, a fictional river in the poem Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge; Alph, a character from Luminous Arc; Alph, a character from the game Pikmin 3

  5. List of river name etymologies - Wikipedia

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    Alph River: name is from the opening passage in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem, Kubla Khan [1] Onyx River: so named because of the relationship of the 15th, 14th, 25th and 24th letters of the alphabet in Onyx [2] [clarification needed]

  6. Ward Valley - Wikipedia

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    Named by New Zealand Geographic Board (NZGB) in 1994 in connection with the adjacent Alph River, an earlier name inspired by the 1816 work Kubla Khan by English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. [9] The name Xanadu used in the poem is an archaic romanisation of Shangdu, the summer capital of Kublai Khan's Yuan dynasty in China.

  7. Talk:Xanadu (Rush song) - Wikipedia

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    (RI)Taking it back to the basics, the lyrics of the song are "In Xanadu did Kubla Khan a pleasure dome decree"; that is almost exactly taking it from the poem, so logically Xanadu is the same thing as the place within the poem. —83.104.37.31 16:15, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

  8. Template:Poem - Wikipedia

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    In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea. So twice five miles of fertile ground With walls and towers were girdled round: And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills, Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree;

  9. Koettlitz Glacier - Wikipedia

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    He reported that the stream continues north a considerable distance under moraine and ultimately subglacially beneath Koettlitz Glacier to the Ross Sea. This led to the name from a passage in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem Kubla Khan: “Where Alph the sacred river ran, Through caverns measureless to man, Down to a sunless sea.” [12]