Dreaming of Kublai Khan's Palace
from Black Magic by Carpeaux
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In 1797 Coleridge received in a dream a vision of Kublai Khan's palace in Shangdu and of a woman who sang of her homeland.
The poem was 200 verses long but Coleridge couldn't finish it before his memory faded. It's unlike any of his other poems, like it wasn't written by himself
30 years later Rashid Al-Din's history book was first published in Europe, telling of how Kublai Khan dreamed about a palace and had it built East of Shangdu.
The palace was described by Marco Polo, who wrote that the Khan, on horseback, would use his leopard to hunt to feed his hawks.
I believe this is the action of an unknown force, maybe the Abyssinian woman in the poem, longing for a home for her demon lover, or for the ancient voices who spoke of war to the Khan.
The palace is now in ruins and the poem is incomplete, but the woman will come again to complete the project, perhaps in the form of music.
The poem was 200 verses long but Coleridge couldn't finish it before his memory faded. It's unlike any of his other poems, like it wasn't written by himself
30 years later Rashid Al-Din's history book was first published in Europe, telling of how Kublai Khan dreamed about a palace and had it built East of Shangdu.
The palace was described by Marco Polo, who wrote that the Khan, on horseback, would use his leopard to hunt to feed his hawks.
I believe this is the action of an unknown force, maybe the Abyssinian woman in the poem, longing for a home for her demon lover, or for the ancient voices who spoke of war to the Khan.
The palace is now in ruins and the poem is incomplete, but the woman will come again to complete the project, perhaps in the form of music.
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