LITERATURE QUESTIONS
EARLY BRITISH LITERATURE
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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A series of memorable images
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The tales of a traveler in the Far East
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Historical facts about the king of China
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An account of the brave deeds of a ruling family
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Detailed explanation-1: -The images Coleridge uses in the poem are of opposing nature. The images of light and darkness, sunny dome and sunless sea or caves of ice, Paradise garden and hints of hell succeed one after another. The dome is the image of pleasure and the river that of life.
Detailed explanation-2: -The poem describes Kubla Khan as a powerful ruler who has great command. His authoritativeness lies in the fact that he can order for a pleasure dome to be built on merely one order. This pleasure dome is no less than a miracle as it comprises of caves of ice. What’s miraculous is that it is present in a sunny area.
Detailed explanation-3: -Most modern critics now view Kubla Khan as one of Coleridge’s three great poems, along with The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Christabel. The poem is considered one of the most famous examples of Romanticism in English poetry, and is one of the most frequently anthologized poems in the English language.
Detailed explanation-4: -Coleridge successfully illustrates the qualities of imagination in his poem, Kubla Khan, through the sound of words, the creative content and his ability to create and recreate. Coleridge turns the words of the poem into a system of symbols that are suspended in the reader’s mind.