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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. 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" 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. 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 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.
Kubla Khan, poetic fragment by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, published in 1816. According to Coleridge, he composed the 54-line work while under the influence of laudanum, a form of opium. Coleridge believed that several hundred lines of the poem had come to him in a dream, but he was able to remember.
Kubla Khan. Samuel Taylor Coleridge. In 1797, Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote “Kubla Khan,” a poem that is often considered his signature work. When he eventually published the poem in 1816, Coleridge wrote an introduction that mythologized the story of its composition.
Jan 29, 2018 · “Kubla Khan” is a poem clearly meant to be spoken. So many early readers and critics found it literally incomprehensible that it became a commonly accepted idea that this poem is “composed of sound rather than sense.” Its sound is beautiful—as will be evident to anyone who reads it aloud.
