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In 1798 Samuel Taylor Coleridge was living in Nether Stowey in Somerset. An opium addict, he often found inspiration for his writing in his drug-induced dreams. One day, having lately read a tale of Eastern travel called "Purchas His Pilgrimage", he fell asleep and, helped by the opium, had an extraordinarily vivid dream. When he woke up he rushed to set down the dream and its atmosphere on paper. Before he could finish, he was interrupted by the unwelcome arrival of "a person on business from Porlock" (also in Somerset.) The nature of the person's business is not recorded, but when Coleridge got back to his poem he found the mood was gone and he could no longer remember the end of the dream.
The poem "Kubla Kahn" has never been finished. Even so, it is regarded as one of the great poems of the Romantic era, with its depiction of mysterious "caverns measureless to man" and a character under an unearthly spell: "For he on honey-dew hath fed/ And drunk the milk of Paradise." Sadly we will never know how the poem was supposed to end.
The poem "Kubla Kahn" has never been finished. Even so, it is regarded as one of the great poems of the Romantic era, with its depiction of mysterious "caverns measureless to man" and a character under an unearthly spell: "For he on honey-dew hath fed/ And drunk the milk of Paradise." Sadly we will never know how the poem was supposed to end.
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