Mount Abora

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Mount Abora is the mythical, idyllic mountain evoked in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem “Kubla Khan,” symbolizing a visionary, otherworldly realm of poetic imagination.

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Mount Abora canonical 3

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Predicate Object
instanceOf fictional place
literary location
mythical mountain
poetic image
symbolic motif
appearsInWork Kubla Khan
associatedWithGenre Romantic poetry
associatedWithMovement Romanticism
surface form: English Romanticism
createdBy Samuel Taylor Coleridge
creationPeriod Romantic era
culturalContext British literature
Romantic literature
describedByAuthor Samuel Taylor Coleridge
firstPublicationContext poem Kubla Khan
hasQuality idyllic
imaginary
mythical
otherworldly
sublime
visionary
hasRole emblem of an ideal, idyllic realm
representation of otherworldly inspiration
site of poetic transcendence
symbol of visionary imagination
language English
literaryFunction to embody unattainable artistic perfection
to evoke a dreamlike, visionary space
to intensify the poem’s sense of mystery
locatedInNarrativeWorld imagined realm of Kubla Khan
medium poetry
ontologicalStatus fictional
referencedAs Mount Abora self-link
relatedConcept Xanadu
sacred river Alph
symbolizes creative ecstasy
ideal beauty
poetic imagination
transcendent artistic vision
utopian landscape

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Abyssinian maid singsOf Mount Abora
Mount Abora referencedAs Mount Abora self-link