pleasure-dome of Xanadu
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The pleasure-dome of Xanadu is the opulent, dreamlike palace and surrounding landscape envisioned in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem "Kubla Khan," symbolizing exotic luxury and imaginative grandeur.
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| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
fictional place
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literary location → symbolic landscape → |
| appearsIn |
"Kubla Khan; or, A Vision in a Dream"
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| associatedWith |
Kublai Khan
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| countryOfOrigin |
United Kingdom
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| createdBy |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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| culturalImpact |
became a common reference for opulent fantasy settings
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influenced later literature and popular culture depictions of Xanadu → |
| describedAs |
"caverns measureless to man"
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"stately pleasure-dome" → "sunless sea" → |
| describedBy |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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| firstPublishedIn |
1816
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| genre |
lyric poetry
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romantic visionary poem → |
| hasPart |
caverns
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fertile ground → forests → gardens → meandering river Alph → sacred river Alph → stately palace → sunless sea → towers → walls → |
| hasQuality |
dreamlike
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exotic → grand → luxurious → opulent → |
| hasTheme |
dream and vision
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imperial power → the limits of human creativity → the sublime → the tension between art and nature → |
| inspiredBy |
accounts of Kublai Khan
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travel literature about Xanadu (Shangdu) → |
| language |
English
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| literaryMovement |
Romanticism
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| locatedInFictional |
Xanadu
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| medium |
poetry
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| partOf |
poem "Kubla Khan"
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| symbolizes |
artistic imagination
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creative vision → exotic luxury → imaginative grandeur → romantic imagination → the power of the poetic mind → |
Referenced by (2)
| Subject (surface form when different) | Predicate |
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Kubla Khan
("pleasure-dome")
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notableImage |
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Kubla Khan
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setting |