Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Kubla Khan. Or, a vision in a dream. A Fragment. Down to a sunless sea. Enfolding sunny spots of greenery. Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover! By woman wailing for her demon-lover! It flung up momently the sacred river. Ancestral voices prophesying war!
Kubla Khan. Or a Vision in a Dream. A Fragment. Down to a sunless sea. Enfolding sunny spots of greenery. Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover! By woman wailing for her demon lover! It flung up momently the sacred river. Ancestral voices prophesying war!
Kubla Khan: or A Vision in a Dream (/ ˌkʊblə ˈkɑːn /) 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."
Kubla Khan. Or, a vision in a dream. A fragment. 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.
"Kubla Khan" is considered to be one of the greatest poems by the English Romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who said he wrote the strange and hallucinatory poem shortly after waking up from an opium-influenced dream in 1797.
‘Kubla Khan’ is the finest example of pure poetry removed from any intellectual content. Being essential to the nature of a dream, it enchants by the loveliness of its color, artistic beauty, and sweet harmony.
Read the poem text. One of the great curiosities of English literature, also one of the glories of English literature, everyone knows the story about Coleridge's opium dream of Kubla Khan, and the person from Porlock who interrupted it.