Kubla Khan (character)

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Kubla Khan is the legendary Mongol emperor depicted in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem as a visionary ruler who commands the construction of a magnificent pleasure-dome in Xanadu.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf literary character
poetic persona
appearsIn "Kubla Khan; or, A Vision in a Dream: A Fragment" NERFINISHED
associatedWithConcept orientalist fantasy
romantic fragment
associatedWithMotif caverns measureless to man
sacred river Alph
sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice
vision in a dream
associatedWithPlace Xanadu NERFINISHED
associatedWithStructure pleasure-dome NERFINISHED
basedOn Kublai Khan NERFINISHED
centralThemeInWork creative power
imagination
nature and artifice
the sublime
commandsConstructionOf pleasure-dome
countryOfOriginInFiction Mongol Empire NERFINISHED
createdBy Samuel Taylor Coleridge NERFINISHED
depictedAs controlling a sacred river landscape
ordering a stately pleasure-dome
describedAs mighty emperor
visionary ruler
ethnicity Mongol NERFINISHED
fictionalizedVersionOf Kublai Khan NERFINISHED
firstAppearanceYear 1816
genreOfWork Romantic poetry
lyric poetry
hasAttribute awe-inspiring presence
commanding authority
powerful imagination
hasCulturalImpactOn Romantic conceptions of the imagination
literary depictions of Xanadu
hasNameVariant Kubla Khan NERFINISHED
Kublai Khan (poetic form) NERFINISHED
imaginedHistoricalPeriod 13th century
inspiredBySource Samuel Purchas’s travel writings
travel accounts about Kublai Khan
languageOfWork English
literaryPeriod Romanticism NERFINISHED
medium poetry
narrativeRole figure of imaginative power
subject of the poem
occupation emperor
portrayedAs architect of a visionary palace
semi-mythical ruler
relatedWork "Kubla Khan" (poem) NERFINISHED
rulesOver Xanadu NERFINISHED
title Mongol emperor

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meandering river Alph associatedWith Kubla Khan (character)