![]() The palace was a paragon of beauty bedecked with natural flora and fauna as the poet sees in his vision. It was full of old forests and green spots. The gardens of this palace were full of beautiful rivulets and incense-bearing trees. He says that the ground was five square miles on all sides, with high towers and walls around it. The poet goes into the details of the ground selected for the palace. These verses contribute to the main idea of romanticism and the power of imagination. The vision of the poet is this exotic atmosphere which was more exotic when the poem appeared. The poet means that the river does not show up after it undergoes into the long caverns. The sacred river Alph flowed through that city and ran in immeasurable caverns toward the sea, where it does open itself to the sun. The poet sees that Kubla Khan, the Chinese king, ordered the construction of a pleasure dome in Xanadu, a Chinese city. And it is just a fragment of that vision. The poet starts with the title of the poem, which he says is a vision in a dream. Then reached the caverns measureless to man,Īnd ’mid this tumult Kubla heard from farĪnd drunk the milk of Paradise. Through wood and dale the sacred river ran, Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher’s flail:Īnd mid these dancing rocks at once and ever Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail, Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree Īnd here were forests ancient as the hills,īut oh! that deep romantic chasm which slantedĭown the green hill athwart a cedarn cover!Īs e’er beneath a waning moon was hauntedĪnd from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething,Īs if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing, With walls and towers were girdled round Īnd there were gardens bright with sinuous rills,
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