In the preface to this poem, the author references Theocritus's Idyls in saying that "I shall sing a sweeter song tomorrow, but the to-morrow is yet to come." The poem itself compares "huge fragments" to "rebounding hail, / Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail." The main action of this work is set near "caves of ice
In the preface to this poem, the author references Theocritus's Idyls in saying that "I shall sing a sweeter song tomorrow, but the to-morrow is yet to come." The poem itself compares "huge fragments" to "rebounding hail, / Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail." The main action of this work is set near "caves of ice" and a "deep romantic chasm" through which the river Alph meanders, and, later on, its poet describes a "damsel with a dulcimer" whose "symphony and song / To such a deep delight 'twould win me;" however, that Abyssinian maid's music contrasts with "ancestral voices prophesying war." A visitor from Porlock interrupted,.FTP, which opium trip of a poem in which "a stately pleasure-dome" is decreed in Xanadu by the titular Mongol emperor, a work of Samuel Taylor Coleridge?
In the preface to this poem, the author references Theocritus's Idyls in saying that "I shall sing a sweeter song tomorrow, but the to-morrow is yet to come.
"Kubla Khan or a Vision in a Dream. A Fragment"