Xanadu

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Xanadu is the opulent, mythical pleasure-dome city evoked in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem "Kubla Khan."

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Predicate Object
instanceOf fictional city
literary location
mythical place
associatedWith Kubla Khan
surface form: Kubla Khan (poem)

Kublai Khan
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
creator Samuel Taylor Coleridge
culturalMeaning symbol of hedonistic pleasure
symbol of imaginative excess
symbol of opulence
depictedAs exotic landscape
opulent city
pleasure-dome city
describedInWork Kubla Khan
firstAppearanceIn Kubla Khan
hasFeature ancestral voices prophesying war
caverns measureless to man
caves of ice
demon-lover
dome of pleasure
fertile ground
forests
gardens
romantic chasm
sacred river Alph
stately pleasure-dome
sunless sea
walls and towers
hasLanguage English
hasSymbolism artistic creation
dream-vision
exotic otherness
imperial power
hasTheme romantic imagination
the power of art
the sublime
influenced later depictions of utopian cities
use of the name Xanadu for luxurious estates
inspiredBy Shangdu
literaryPeriod Romanticism
medium poetry
mentionedInLine In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
referencedAs name for Charles Foster Kane’s mansion in Citizen Kane
referencedIn Citizen Kane

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