Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A Vision in a Dream: A Fragment
A richly imagistic, dreamlike fragment that evokes an exotic imperial landscape where a ruler's ornate pleasure-dome stands amid sunny gardens, a sacred river, roaring waters and measureless caverns; the poem alternates between serene, visionary beauty and a darker, terrifying abyss to meditate on the eruptive power of imagination, the fleetingness of creative inspiration, and the speaker's frustrated longing to recapture a transcendent vision.
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- Published
- 1816
- Nationality
- English
- Length
- Very Short
- Pages
- 1-4 pages
- Original Language
- English
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