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Kubla Khan
[ koo-bluh kahn ]
âKubla Khanâ
- An evocative poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge about an exotic emperor. It begins with these lines: âIn Xanadu did Kubla Khan / A stately pleasure-dome decreeâŠ.â
Example Sentences
As in âKubla Khan,â my trip sparkles like a pleasure dome and echoes with cries of âBeware!â
Developers broke ground in 2004 for its predecessor, a mall initially dubbed "Xanadu" after the pleasure dome in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem "Kubla Khan."
Speaking of his friend Carl Fisher, the Kubla Khan of Miami Beach, Rogers said, âCarl discovered that sand could hold up a real estate sign.â
The long list of inventions and great works said to have been generated in dreams includes the periodic table, the sewing machine, Coleridgeâs âKubla Khan,â Paul McCartneyâs âLet It Be,â and Mary Shelleyâs âFrankenstein.â
Some scholars claim that Coleridge got stuck on Kubla Khan and then invented the Person from Porlock to excuse its fragmentary composition.
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