AGES ERA PERIOD
RESTORATION AND 18TH CENTURY
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Kubla Khan
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Hellas
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The Phoenix and the Turtle
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The Castaway
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Detailed explanation-1: -But behind the careful descriptions of Samuel Purchas, author of the 1617 work Purchas his Pilgrimage, it’s an unusual reader who can’t hear Coleridge’s more famous lines, written in 1816: “In Xanadu did Kubla Khan/ A stately pleasure-dome decree…”
Detailed explanation-2: -In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the scared river, ran Through caverns measurless to man Down sunless sea.
Detailed explanation-3: -We learn about a mythical city known as Xanadu. 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.
Detailed explanation-4: -Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Poetry Foundation.