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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


"A mighty fountain momently was forced...

lives in a "stately" palace. The speaker used the word dome instead of palace. Perhaps in his dream he saw a dome as big or a stately as a palace, and that is where Kubla Khan lived.

...It flung up momently the sacred river...

It seems, in lines 17-31, that there could possibly be a war started. It is never said why the war was started or if there in fact is really a war, but after that sequence of lines the speaker goes into another rant. He said that there was a "sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice." It is not understood what the voice is trying to get across to the reader in this line. It is known that ice does not exist in the sun, at least not for long, so does this mean that there is not really a dome at all?

...And 'mid this tumult Kubla heard from far

He must have been a sight to see. The voice also say

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