The speaker of this poem compares its setting to a "savage place" haunted by a "woman wailing for her demon-lover," and it analogizes some huge flying rock fragments to "chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail.
The speaker of this poem compares its setting to a "savage place" haunted by a "woman wailing for her demon-lover," and it analogizes some huge flying rock fragments to "chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail." This poem's speaker imagines himself with "flashing eyes" and "floating hair" as a consequence of his eating honeydew and drinking "the (*) milk of Paradise." This poem's final section describes its speaker's vision of an Abyssinian maid playing on a dulcimer and singing of Mount Abora, and it begins with a description of a site where "Alph, the sacred river ran, through caverns measureless to man." A "stately-pleasure dome" is decreed in Xanadu in, for 10 points, what poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge named for a Mongol ruler?
The speaker of this poem compares its setting to a "savage place" haunted by a "woman wailing for her demon-lover," and it analogizes some huge flying rock fragments to "chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail.
"Kubla Khan"