Kubla Khan : poetic fragment by Coleridge.
... and darkness." I think the Kubla-Khan affinity is too widely present in essence to be missed. And while we are about it we may recall that one of the many sources, from which Coleridge's dreaming imagination drew with the help of his profusely stored memory the materials of Kubla Khan, is Paradise Lost itself. Not only does the Xanadu of Kubla Khan, with its pleasance girdled by walls... life. Coleridge's Kubla Khan was composed during a dream. But it is a wonder of brief spell and Coleridge never met with a repetition of the experience, though we may be right in viewing The Ancient Mariner and Christabel as resulting from a sort of prolongation or projection of the dream-state into the waking consciousness. If Milton is to be believed, he had a Kubla-Khan experience night... upon his dream-sight. Kubla Khan is an unmixed glimpse of the beyond-earth. All the reminiscences from Coleridge's reading, with which it is full, have only triggered off a peep into the occult - or, rather, the occult has itself caught hold of those reminiscences and organised them in its own light. That is why Sri Aurobindo 30 has pronounced about Kubla Khan: "it is a genuine supra-physical ...
... Classical and Romantic 6 The climax of the second Romanticism: poetry of the Age of Wordsworth - the Romantic quintessence of Kubla Khan In appearance, the second Romantic Movement started in England at the end of the eighteenth century by a revolt against the artificial "poetic diction" of the pseudo-Augustan Age. Wordsworth asked for a... either a subtlety in the sense of general form or else a looseness in the view of the whole. The change in form-feeling is acutely illustrated by one of the most Romantic poems, Coleridge's Kubla Khan. It was published as the transcript of a fluctuant dream and as a mere fragment, but to the typical Romantic mind it is as good as a coherent totality and a complete composition. The individual... vaguely suggestive of the whole piece being subtly rounded off, as well as of the main theme being some powerfully guarded per-fection. Apart from constituting a characteristic Romantic ensemble, Kubla Khan is notable for providing a partial definition of Romanticism itself in the words: But oh that deep romantic chasm which slanted Down the green slope athwart a cedarn cover - A savage ...
... whether a second such burst of quintessential romantic poetry as Coleridge's Kubla Khan was not possible. The day before yesterday I got some kind of inspiration and wrote the first draft of these lines that form a fragment on the same theme as that of Coleridge. But can it come anywhere near that gem? Kubla Khan "For thy unforgettable sake See my royal passion wake Marmoreal... transcriptions from it pure (for then your writing becomes marvellously good); that would be a truer line of progress than these exercises. 21 August 1931 Page 503 Do you think my poem Kubla Khan will be much improved if I give it a conclusion improvised from an early, unequal, effort of mine, so that it ends: That longing of mysterious tears From infinite to infinite? I write ...
... in the Psalm of the Jews in exile, 'If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand lose its cunning' etc. 'By the waters of Babylon I sat down and wept.' I like your young friend's piece on Kubla Khan, and it Page 175 may well be that she has indeed settled the date of the poem. I can't see Coleridge as likely to be accurate about dates. He may well have read Wordsworth's letter... my friend to tell Dr. Indira to phone to you and take an appointment. I trust this will not inconvenience you much. Eira Dyne was very pleased to hear from me that you liked her piece on "Kubla Khan" and that it may well be that she has indeed settled the date of the poem. Now the last point. You have asked me whether 1 am willing to contribute to Temenos a paper on poetry from the standpoint ...
... Classical and Romantic Foreword We were doing Coleridge's Kubla Khan in the first year Poetry Class at the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education in Pondicherry. When we had recovered enough from the intoxication of reading it and could ask critical questions, the very first and the most general and fundamental that arose were apropos... 'romantic' mean here? And how does it reflect the mind of the movement in English and Continental literature called Romanticism as distinguished from the other called Classicism - Romanticism of which Kubla Khan is itself considered one of the quintessential products?" These two questions were immediately followed by a third, "What has Sri Aurobindo written about those movements?" The teacher gave ...
... the Baptist, 108 Jung, 4,141,142,146 Kazin, Alfred, 22 Kelley, Maurice, 101 Keynes, Geoffrey, i, ii, iii, iv, 2 fn. 1, 18,236-37 King Henry the Fifth, 40,41 fn. 23 Kubla Khan, 126 Lamb, The, 168,207-08 Lamb and the Tyger, The, 30,31,33, 35, 37,38,40,44,45,46,47,206-08, "Lamb of God", 207, 245,246,247 Learned derivations of the names of the ...
... illustrates his thesis by choosing no less a genius than Blake: this choice is a very nugget of the true gold of critical perception. The traditional example of poetry neat and pure is Coleridge's Kubla Khan. Housman plunges still nearer the heart of things by selecting work which goes even beyond the non-moral, non-intellectual, sheer visionary delight of Xanadu. There is in Coleridge's perfect picture ...
... at play and the aesthetic sense, set to however new a pattern, is not coarsened. Actually an anticipation of true modem poetry in quintessence is in the strange successions and tempo-changes of "Kubla Khan" 's kaleidoscopy and I am glad that this poem has gripped your imagination no less than the researching intellect in you. You certainly have a genuine poet breaking through your young, slightly ...
... extent a poet may feel himself to be a mere passive, almost inanimate, instrument – nothing more than a mirror or a sensitive photographic plate-is illustrated in the famous case of Coleridge. His Kubla Khan, as is well known, he heard in sleep and it was a long poem very distinctly recited to him, but when he woke up and wanted to write it down he could remember only the opening lines, the rest having ...
... Mariner and the first part of Christabel he was full of life and had not surrendered his will to laudanum: his vitality was almost always a-dance, as Hazlitt and others have recorded. Even Kubla Khan, the poem that carne to him during an opium dream, was penned at a time Page 188 when his nerves were very far indeed from being enfeebled by drug-taking. To describe Wordsworth ...
... which - while lacking the famous "flashing eyes" and very much the equally celebrated "floating hair" -is touched by something of the light and delight Coleridge ascribed to his visionary poet in Kubla Khan: For he on honey-dew hath fed And drunk the milk of paradise. Perhaps the discrepancy between the lower body and the rest of me is the result of a defect in my sadhana. While ...
... its truth will lack the lights and shadows belonging to the inner dimensions of reality. We have already noted two things about Milton vis- à -vis these dimensions. First, although there is a Kubla-Khan quality in parts of Paradise Lost, a quality not sufficiently appreciated by critics, what we get is not so much the occult seizing the outer consciousness as the outer consciousness infusing ...
... psychology too is here. The picture of poetry as being produced by the lips because the poet has taken strange unearthly food is a recurrent one in literature: we may cite Coleridge's line in Kubla Khan about the bespelled singer: For he on honey-dew hath fed And drunk the milk of paradise. And in this picture we have two implications: the poet has taken into himself the stuff ...
... reference to the epic. That does not diminish its own poetic creativity, its own imaginative originality, any more than J. Livingstone Lowe's tracing of innumerable details of The Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan in a 243. Ibid. 244. Ibid., 11 .900-904. Page 126 variety of books by others lessens the supreme and unique inspiration of these works of Coleridge's in their finally ...
... own, may call "unknown modes of being" and what in addition we may call after Plato the prenatal bliss of the soul. Both the shades join with suggestions floating or flashing out from Coleridge's Kubla Khan. The woman wailing for her demon lover and haunting the romantic chasm is matched by the episode, recounted in The Prelude, of the boy Wordsworth pushing off the shore in a boat found tied to ...
... glorious sun, that would not yield to night”. Has not K.D.S. himself revealed: “My day-to-day mood…is touched by something of the light and delight Coleridge ascribed to his visionary poet in Kubla Khan: For he on honey-dew hath fed And drunk the milk of paradise.”? Amal-da has indeed “drunk the milk of paradise” got amply substantiated in recent years in a couple of rather very painful ...
... -"Blue Profound", 69n Chicago, 196n China, 133, 281 Christ, Jesus, 68, 107, 114, 116-18, 120, 122-4, 129, 240, 267 Christianity, 120, 125, 240, 244, 276 Coleridge, 84, 235 -Kubla Khan, 84 Commonwealth, 284, 290 Communism (Sovietic), 253 Confucius, 281 Cousins, James H., 52n -New Ways in English Literature, 52n DANDAKARANYA,276 Dante, 53, 60-1, ...
... the Mother of the onesided exchange and her decision at last to withdraw her own personal participation in the ceremony - it was a marvellous lyric suspended half-way through, like Coleridge's Kubla Khan. That too was the period when the Mother instituted other means also of engaging the sadhaks' attention and awakening and stimulating their dormant consciousness in desired directions. Again ...
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