Kubla Khan
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In 1798, a man named Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote the poem called “Kubla Khan”. It is well documented that he had dreamt the poem, and wrote it down just as it he remembered it . He also said that the poem was only a fragment, it is not complete. In the first part, it seemed that he was talking of a far away land, Xanadu. Kubla Khan could be the leader of this place. This place had a sacred river running through it which I am still not sure about , but It had many spots of greenery around it with forests that were ancient. In the beging it says, “In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure dome decree”. What could that mean? It could mean that Kubla Khan is a leader of somehow, The speaker used the word dome instead of palace which puzzled me but a dome as big as a palace or a structure that could hold caves of ice and that is where Kubla Khan lived. In the second part, the he goes on to describe the land of Xanadu. He says that there is a forest that is inhabited a “woman wailing for her demon-lover.” “A mighty fountain momently was forced; Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail; It flung up momently the sacred river; And mid this tumult Kubla heard from far Ancestral voices prophesying war!” It seems that there could be a war started. I never understud why that part was in the or what it symbolizes other that there acsual war. Then he goes inton the decription of the the dome “sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice.” I believe
this line is irony because a sunny pleasue dome represents good but the next word is caves of ice which repesents death cold and loneyness and this is in the pleasure dome , plus it says sunny dome, ice doesnt last in the I think that represents the idea that worldly pleasure only last for a season like the ice in the dome it will soon melt away into the reality of where you are really at. he goes on to say that “he would build the dome in the sky, and