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Refer to the paradox between the pleasure domes likeness to Eden, and the sin of pleasure. Is Kubla Khan challenging God by recreating heaven, or is this simply to highlight the God like qualities of Kubla Khan?
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Practical Criticism of Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge * Refer to the paradox between the pleasure domes likeness to Eden, and the sin of pleasure. Is Kubla Khan challenging God by recreating heaven, or is this simply to highlight the God like qualities of Kubla Khan The first stanza sets the tone, theme and location of the poem. Most of this is achieved in the first five lines. The rhyme pattern makes the first five lines almost independent of the rest of the stanza and the indentation of the fifth line marks the change in pace that can be seen between the two halves of the first stanza. Inn the second half of this stanza, the rhyme scheme is changed and this has a noticeable effect on the stanza as a whole. It creates a definition between the broad description of Xanadu in the first half of the stanza, and the...
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