But where the lines of the first stanza are measured and tranquil in both sound and sense , this second stanza is agitated and extreme, like the movement of the rocks and the sacred river, marked with the urgency of exclamation points both at the beginning of the stanza and at its end:. The fantastical description becomes even more so in the third stanza:.
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In fact, it is believed that the most fantastical world created by Coleridge is that in Kubla Khan. The story behind writing this poem is that Coleridge wrote this poem after he had an opium-influenced dream.
Coleridge explored the depths of dream and created a landscape that could not exist in reality. It describes the extreme fantasy, the extremeness of imagination of the world in which Kubla Khan lives. The theme was also taken up by Granville Bantock and published by Curwen in It was sometimes a test piece for unaccompanied male voices at festivals and was arranged for brass band.
Jeffrey Green. September Samuel Coleridge-Taylor created Kubla Khan in The poem is set in Mongolia in the 13 th century. It has been much analysed by scholars of English Literature, and has scarcely been out of print in two centuries. It opens:.
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan. A stately pleasure-drome decree;. Where Alph, the sacred river ran. Through caverns measureless to man. Down to a sunless sea. The soloist was contralto Edna Thornton born the same year as Coleridge-Taylor, she died in
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