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Athena Mondale,
Spiritual Consultant
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Even Coleridge's famous poem Kubla Khan , written from an opium dream, in which the legendary ruler builds a pleasure dome in Xanadu over a hidden sacred river where women mourn for demon lovers and Abyssinian maids play dulcimers, bears out this aura of the strange.
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Keith Tennant,
Factory Worker
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See Thomas De Quincey, Confessions of an Opium Eater, (London: Cresset Press, 1950); Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "Kubla Khan", The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ed.
Since seeing (and researching before seeing) Pandaemonium , I've been obsessed with Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, when I ought to have been obsessed with Wordsworth's Daffodils instead.
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Bori Gonbutoren,
Reindeer Herder
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Problem Report: Coleridge and the Preface to "Kubla Khan" Problem: Decide whether or not Coleridge, composing under the influence of opium, failed to finish "Kubla Khan" because of being interrupted by a man from Porlock.
Also, the close repetition of the same end consonants of stressed syllables with differing vowel sounds, such as boat and night , or the words drunk and milk in the final line of Coleridge's " Kubla Khan.
Coleridge (1772 -1834) has been called the "Alnaschar of Modern Literature" because he "dreamt" his Kubla Khan , and wrote it out next morning which is fitting as Kubla Khan is a utopian setting.
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Anita Ganesh,
Poet
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The haunting and enticing poetry here includes a sequel to Coleridge's "Kubla Khan" and a meditation on Ophelia; mystical tales of lovers tragically parted and magically reunited; and a series of poems based on individual women of the poet's acquaintance and/or imagination.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge 's poetic masterpieces Kubla Khan and The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner were inspired by dreams.
Most of the poem was never written down, and Kubla Khan has forever been known as the great Unfinished Poem.
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Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist
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For the work and play of daily life, the case of Coleridge's Kubla Khan is perhaps still the most instructive: even a talent such as Coleridge had only one 'chemically' induced creative occurrence in his entire lifetime!
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Khalid Binalshibh,
Taxi Driver
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The account which we have from the garrulous half-blood reminds us of the stately pleasure-dome decreed by Kubla Khan on the turbulent banks of the sacred Alph.
Dunx: The phrase "Thrice girdled round" in Coleridge's unfinished epic poem "Kubla Khan" is a euphemism for the out-of-favour practice of covering your head in porridge before running naked through the streets shouting "I am the Oat King!
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