Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem "Kubla Khan" (Xanadu)
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem "Kubla Khan" is a famous Romantic-era work that vividly depicts the exotic, dreamlike pleasure-dome of Xanadu and has become iconic for its rich imagery and fragmentary, visionary quality.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| "Kubla Khan; or, A Vision in a Dream" | 1 |
| Christabel; Kubla Khan, a Vision; The Pains of Sleep | 1 |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem "Kubla Khan" (Xanadu) canonical | 1 |
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Target entity: Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem "Kubla Khan" (Xanadu) Context triple: [Xanadu hypertext system, hasNameOrigin, Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem "Kubla Khan" (Xanadu)]
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Target entity: Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem "Kubla Khan" (Xanadu) Target entity description: Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem "Kubla Khan" is a famous Romantic-era work that vividly depicts the exotic, dreamlike pleasure-dome of Xanadu and has become iconic for its rich imagery and fragmentary, visionary quality.
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Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Romantic poem
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poem ⓘ |
| alternativeTitle |
Kubla Khan
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surface form:
Kubla Khan; or, A Vision in a Dream
Kubla Khan ⓘ
surface form:
Kubla Khan; or, A Vision in a Dream: A Fragment
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| associatedConcept |
Xanadu as an idealized, exotic paradise
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poetic inspiration as trance or dream ⓘ |
| author | Samuel Taylor Coleridge ⓘ |
| basedOn | Kublai Khan ⓘ |
| compositionDate | 1797 ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| criticalReputation |
celebrated for rich, dreamlike imagery
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one of the most famous poems of English Romanticism ⓘ |
| describedAs |
fragment
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vision in a dream ⓘ |
| firstPublicationDate | 1816 ⓘ |
| firstPublishedIn |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem "Kubla Khan" (Xanadu)
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Christabel; Kubla Khan, a Vision; The Pains of Sleep
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| form |
accentual verse
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irregular meter ⓘ |
| genre |
lyric poetry
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visionary poem ⓘ |
| hasParatext | Coleridge’s preface describing an interrupted opium dream ⓘ |
| influenceOnCulture | popularized the name Xanadu in Western culture ⓘ |
| influenceOnLiterature | inspired numerous later Romantic and modernist writers ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | Samuel Purchas’s travel book Purchas, His Pilgrimage ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lineCount | 54 ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Romanticism ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Kublai Khan ⓘ |
| meter | variable iambic and accentual patterns ⓘ |
| notableImage |
Abyssinian maid with a dulcimer
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caverns measureless to man ⓘ pleasure-dome of Xanadu ⓘ
surface form:
pleasure-dome
sunless sea ⓘ |
| openingLine | In Xanadu did Kubla Khan ⓘ |
| period |
Romanticism
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surface form:
Romantic era
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| placeOfComposition | near Porlock, Somerset ⓘ |
| publisher | John Murray ⓘ |
| rhymeScheme | irregular rhyme scheme ⓘ |
| setting |
Xanadu
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pleasure-dome of Xanadu ⓘ |
| structure | two main movements ⓘ |
| subjectMatter | Kublai Khan’s decree to build a stately pleasure-dome in Xanadu ⓘ |
| theme |
creative power
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exoticism ⓘ imagination ⓘ nature and the sublime ⓘ the limits of artistic creation ⓘ |
| title | Kubla Khan ⓘ |
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