Sitaatteja runosta Kubla Khan

Samuel Taylor Coleridgein Kubla Khan-teoksen (1816) 9 kuuluisaa säettä sanatarkasti, selityksineen ja lähdetietoineen.

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1. 1

   In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
   A stately pleasure-dome decree:

   Merkitys: Kubla Khan orders an impressive palace for pleasure to be built in Xanadu.

   The poetSäkeistö 1, säkeet 1–2Kopioi
2. 2

   A savage place! as holy and inchanted
   As e’er beneath a waning moon was haunted
   By woman wailing for her demon-lover!

   Merkitys: The chasm feels wild, sacred, and supernatural, like a place haunted by a woman mourning her demonic lover.

   The poetSäkeistö 3, säkeet 14–16Kopioi
3. 3

   Five miles meandering with a mazy motion
   Through wood and dale the sacred river ran,
   Then reached the caverns measureless to man,
   And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean:

   Merkitys: The sacred river winds through a beautiful landscape before plunging into vast caves and a turbulent, lifeless sea.

   The poetSäkeistö 4, säkeet 25–28Kopioi
4. 4

   And ’mid this tumult Kubla heard from far
   Ancestral voices prophesying war!

   Merkitys: Amid the river’s roar, Kubla hears ancestral warnings of war that threaten the security of his paradise.

   The poetSäkeistö 4, säkeet 29–30Kopioi

Runo päivässä sähköpostiisi Sähköpostiosoitteesi Lähetä minulle runoja Joka aamu yksi klassikkoruno maksutta. Voit perua tilauksen milloin tahansa.

5. 5

   It was a miracle of rare device,
   A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice!

   Merkitys: The palace is an extraordinary creation that brings together the opposing qualities of sunlight and ice.

   The poetSäkeistö 5, säkeet 35–36Kopioi
6. 6

   A damsel with a dulcimer
   In a vision once I saw:
   It was an Abyssinian maid
   And on her dulcimer she play’d,

   Merkitys: The speaker recalls a visionary encounter with an Abyssinian musician whose music becomes a source of creative longing.

   The poetSäkeistö 6, säkeet 37–40Kopioi
7. 7

   I would build that dome in air,
   That sunny dome! those caves of ice!
   And all who heard should see them there,

   Merkitys: The speaker imagines recreating Kubla’s marvelous palace through music so vividly that listeners could see it.

   The poetSäkeistö 7, säkeet 46–48Kopioi
8. 8

   And all should cry, Beware! Beware!
   His flashing eyes, his floating hair!

   Merkitys: The speaker imagines listeners reacting with fear and wonder to his appearance during poetic inspiration.

   The poetSäkeistö 7, säkeet 49–50Kopioi
9. 9

   Weave a circle round him thrice,
   And close your eyes with holy dread:
   For he on honey-dew hath fed,
   And drank the milk of Paradise.

   Merkitys: The imagined audience treats the inspired poet as a sacred, dangerous figure nourished by an otherworldly paradise.

   Imagined onlookersSäkeistö 7, säkeet 51–54Kopioi

Kysymyksiä näistä säkeistä

What does the pleasure-dome symbolize in Kubla Khan?

The pleasure-dome represents magnificent human creation and the power of imagination. Its ordered beauty contrasts with the wild landscape, while the speaker’s wish to recreate it connects architecture with poetry.

What do the final lines of Kubla Khan mean?

The ending presents the inspired poet as both wondrous and frightening. The imagined audience responds with ritual caution, believing his creative power comes from contact with a realm beyond ordinary human experience.