Monday, May 14, 2001

Kubla Khan Comments

Rating: 3.9

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree :
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Ramesh T A 12 April 2022

This is the Poem that has inspired me to think of writing Poetry and has made me also a Poet in the world!

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Sylvia Frances Chan 12 April 2022

EXTRA COMMENT: This brilliant gem of the genius poet deserves TEN Points,5 Stars TOPscore and myriad more! Truly he does not deserve as stated above, of course not! . I have enjoyed tremendously this gem by this genius poet.

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Sylvia Frances Chan 12 April 2022

LAST Response: dominate, and control nature. In this sense, the river begins with rationality—the reasonable parts of the human mind. The river ends, however, in icy caverns, 'measureless to man

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Sylvia Frances Chan 12 April 2022

3) where that creativity actually comes from. The river begins close to Kubla Khan's 'gardens, ' which is important because, at the time the poem was written, gardens often served as symbols of reason: they represent people's power to organize,

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Sylvia Frances Chan 12 April 2022

CONTINUED 2) which is both the model for and the source of human beings' creativity. The speaker then describes the river's course in detail. Along the way, the river is not just a symbol of human creativity: it also provides a map of the human mind, showing

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Sylvia Frances Chan 12 April 2022

God describes Himself as the "Alpha and the Omega"—the first and the last, the source of all things and their end. In this sense, the river's name hints that it is symbolically aligned with God's creative power—.

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Ruta Mohapatra 08 February 2022

Enchanting story!

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MAHTAB BANGALEE 08 February 2022

One of the greatest poem of ST Coleridge. I love this poem always

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Michael Jack 26 August 2021

Classic poem of the day.

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Sylvia Frances Chan 25 August 2021

Great Classic Poem Of The Day

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Sylvia Frances Chan 25 August 2021

5 Stars full for this great poem

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Sylvia Frances Chan 25 August 2021

A grteat poem from a great Poet.5 Stars for this excellent pom

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Rose Marie Juan-austin 25 August 2021

Magnificent poem with superb imagery. So beautifully written and well executed. I concur with the comment of Clyde King.

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Sylvia Frances Chan 25 August 2021

WOW! Such high and mighty personage, wonderous!

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Sylvia Frances Chan 25 August 2021

His flashing eyes, his floating hair! Weave a circle round him thrice, And close your eyes with holy dread, For he on honey-dew hath fed, And drunk the milk of Paradise.

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Clyde King 09 February 2021

This poem came from a prosodic genius. A 3.8 star rating is an insult to this great 19th century British poet.

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Gangadharan nair Pulingat.. 09 February 2021

So beautiful poem from the great poet I likes

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Savita Tyagi 08 February 2021

Reading this beautiful poem again I couldn't but help of climate change and the catastrophes it brings to some man made majestic constructions.Even the glaciers can't escape that ominous wreath of Nature.

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Rakesh 15 September 2019

Nice poem .Helped me in my project

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Iftekhar ifti 20 February 2019

One of the finest work ever of S T Coleridge

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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