Anonymous
6/30/2025, 8:23:54 AM No.24507967
I don't get Kubla Khan
It's just describing an opulent acreage, then just ends
It's just describing an opulent acreage, then just ends
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Anonymous
6/30/2025, 8:29:28 AM No.24507969
>>24507967 (OP)
Kubla Khan is perhaps the most wonderful of all poems. In reading it we seem rapt into that paradise revealed to Swedenborg, where music and colour and perfume were one, where you could hear the hues and see the harmonies of heaven. For absolute melody and splendour it were hardly rash to call it the first poem in the language. An exquisite instinct married to a subtle science of verse has made it the supreme model of music in our language, a model unapproachable except by Shelley. All the elements that compose the perfect form of English metre, as limbs and veins and features a beautiful body of man, were more familiar, more subject as it were, to this great poet than to any other. How, for instance, no less than rhyme, assonance and alliteration are forces, requisite components of high and ample harmony, witness once for all the divine passage which begins—
"Five miles meandering with a mazy motion," &c.
All these least details and delicacies of work are worth notice when the result of them is so-transcendent. Every line of the poem might be subjected to the like scrutiny, but the student would be none the nearer to the master's secret. The spirit, the odour in it, the cloven tongue of fire that rests upon its forehead, is a thing neither explicable nor communicable.
Kubla Khan is perhaps the most wonderful of all poems. In reading it we seem rapt into that paradise revealed to Swedenborg, where music and colour and perfume were one, where you could hear the hues and see the harmonies of heaven. For absolute melody and splendour it were hardly rash to call it the first poem in the language. An exquisite instinct married to a subtle science of verse has made it the supreme model of music in our language, a model unapproachable except by Shelley. All the elements that compose the perfect form of English metre, as limbs and veins and features a beautiful body of man, were more familiar, more subject as it were, to this great poet than to any other. How, for instance, no less than rhyme, assonance and alliteration are forces, requisite components of high and ample harmony, witness once for all the divine passage which begins—
"Five miles meandering with a mazy motion," &c.
All these least details and delicacies of work are worth notice when the result of them is so-transcendent. Every line of the poem might be subjected to the like scrutiny, but the student would be none the nearer to the master's secret. The spirit, the odour in it, the cloven tongue of fire that rests upon its forehead, is a thing neither explicable nor communicable.
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Anonymous
6/30/2025, 8:58:55 AM No.24508002
>>24507967 (OP)
>then just ends
that's because the poem appeared to him in a dream and he didn't remember the rest of the dream.
>then just ends
that's because the poem appeared to him in a dream and he didn't remember the rest of the dream.
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Anonymous
6/30/2025, 9:12:24 AM No.24508017
>>24507973
Dif anon
I thought it was maybe G. Wilson Knight
In Starlit Dome he pretty much reduces English Romanticism in its entirety to this poem
Dif anon
I thought it was maybe G. Wilson Knight
In Starlit Dome he pretty much reduces English Romanticism in its entirety to this poem
Anonymous
6/30/2025, 9:20:51 AM No.24508028
>>24507967 (OP)
>'Kubla Khan' might have been the most beautiful poem in the English language if he had been able to finish it
>'Kubla Khan' might have been the most beautiful poem in the English language if he had been able to finish it
Anonymous
6/30/2025, 3:30:06 PM No.24508501
>>24508002
He has doing a fuck ton of opium
He has doing a fuck ton of opium
Anonymous
7/1/2025, 2:56:46 AM No.24510208
bump
Anonymous
7/1/2025, 3:29:15 PM No.24511398
>>24508030
Only because you don't understand poetry.
Only because you don't understand poetry.
Anonymous
7/2/2025, 1:21:38 AM No.24512847
>>24507969
swinburne was gay, not that that matters
swinburne was gay, not that that matters
Anonymous
7/2/2025, 3:52:09 PM No.24514264
>>24507967 (OP)
mad that guy interrupted
mad that guy interrupted