whats going on in kubla khan
In 1798, a poet named Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote the poem called “Kubla Khan”. In his preface, he stated that he had dreamt the poem, and wrote it down just as it was “preserved”. The speaker also stated that the poem is merely a fragment, it is not complete. “With the exception of about eight or ten scattered lines and images” that had been lost in the transition between sleep and being awake. In the first stanza, it seemed that the speaker was talking of a far away land, Xanadu. Kubla Khan was the leader of this land. This land had a sacred river running through it. It had many spots of greenery around it with forests that were almost “ancient”. In lines one and two it says, “In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure dome decree”. What could that mean? It could perhaps imply that Kubla Khan is a leader of some type, and he
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Approximate Word count = 594
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)
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