Today’s Poem: Kubla Khan
Beware! Beware! His flashing eyes, his floating hair!
Weave a circle round him thrice, / And close your eyes with holy dread — What are we to do with such lines? Coleridge’s “Kubla Khan” has the voice of poetry itself. Just think of the musicality of the opening lines, the magisterial diction of the second stanza, the tone of the prophet …
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