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imaginative journey poem
Posted by: chrisl (---.dsl.nsw.optusnet.com.au)
Date: November 06, 2004 12:33AM

can somebody suggest to me a poem which conveys imaginative journey. im looking for something that can be analysed with lots of literary techniques........thanks for your help


Re: imaginative journey poem
Posted by: lg (---.ca.charter.com)
Date: November 06, 2004 03:19AM

Here you go:

Kubla Khan
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree :
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea.
So twice five miles of fertile ground
With walls and towers were girdled round :
And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills,
Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree ;
And here were forests ancient as the hills,
Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.

But oh ! that deep romantic chasm which slanted
Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover !
A savage place ! as holy and enchanted
As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted
By woman wailing for her demon-lover !
And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething,
As if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing,
A mighty fountain momently was forced :
Amid whose swift half-intermitted burst
Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail,
Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail :
And 'mid these dancing rocks at once and ever
It flung up momently the sacred river.
Five miles meandering with a mazy motion
Through wood and dale the sacred river ran,
Then reached the caverns measureless to man,
And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean :
And 'mid this tumult Kubla heard from far
Ancestral voices prophesying war !
The shadow of the dome of pleasure
Floated midway on the waves ;
Where was heard the mingled measure
From the fountain and the caves.
It was a miracle of rare device,
A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice !

A damsel with a dulcimer
In a vision once I saw :
It was an Abyssinian maid,
And on her dulcimer she played,
Singing of Mount Abora.
Could I revive within me
Her symphony and song,
To such a deep delight 'twould win me,
That with music loud and long,
I would build that dome in air,
That sunny dome ! those caves of ice !
And all who heard should see them there,
And all should cry, Beware ! Beware !
His flashing eyes, his floating hair !
Weave a circle round him thrice,
And close your eyes with holy dread,
For he on honey-dew hath fed,
And drunk the milk of Paradise.

Les


Re: imaginative journey poem
Posted by: chrisl (---.dsl.nsw.optusnet.com.au)
Date: November 06, 2004 05:42PM

thanks a lot


Re: imaginative journey poem
Posted by: zac cohen (---.artrmn1.nsw.optusnet.com.au)
Date: December 05, 2004 12:32AM

somebodys doing the australian hsc


Re: imaginative journey poem
Posted by: IanB (---.tnt11.mel1.da.uu.net)
Date: December 05, 2004 02:39AM

Is it all Australian or just NSW, Zac?


Re: imaginative journey poem
Posted by: helpful person doing HSC (---.rivernet.com.au)
Date: December 08, 2004 01:00AM


u cant use kubla khan, its in the hsc syllabus, though i recommend u go to www.boredofstudies.org/community
to see what u can bring as related material in


Re: imaginative journey poem
Posted by: Hugh Clary (---.phoenix-01rh15-16rt.az.dial-access.att.net)
Date: December 08, 2004 01:50PM

Interesting site. Even has a search engine. I tried 'imaginative journeys' and got this:

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And this result for 'Skrzynecki ':

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