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In 1798, a man named Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote the poem called "Kubla Khan". It is well documented that he had dreamt the poem, and wrote it down just as it he remembered it . He also said that the poem was only a fragment, it is not complete. In the first part, it seemed that he was talking of a far away land, Xanadu. Kubla Khan could be the leader of this place. This place had a sacred river running through it which I am still not sure about , but It had many spots of greenery around it with forests that were ancient. In the beging it says, "In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure dome decree". What could that mean? It could mean that Kubla Khan is a leader of somehow, The speaker used the word dome instead of palace which puzzled me but a dome as big as a palace or a structure that could hold caves of ice and that is where Kubla Khan lived. In the second part, the he goes on to describe the land of Xanadu. He says that there is a forest that is inhabited a "woman......

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