Romantic+Poetry

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 * Please listen to the linked recitations of the 3 poems below - I recommend that you read the text (below) while listening. **

(note for 8th period - I originally told you to read part of "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" instead of this poem; I changed to Kubla Khan because "Ancient Mariner" is so long and I'd rather work through it in class)
 * "Kubla Khan" - Samuel Coleridge (1797) **

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan  A stately pleasure-dome decree:  Where Alph, the sacred river, ran  Through caverns measureless to man  Down to a sunless sea.

 So twice five miles of fertile ground  With walls and towers were girdled round:  And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills,  Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree;  And here were forests ancient as the hills,  Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.

 But oh! that deep romantic chasm which slanted  Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover! <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> A savage place! as holy and enchanted <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> By woman wailing for her demon-lover! <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething, <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> As if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing, <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> A mighty fountain momently was forced: <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> Amid whose swift half-intermitted burst <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail, <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail: <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> And 'mid these dancing rocks at once and ever <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> It flung up momently the sacred river. <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> Five miles meandering with a mazy motion <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> Through wood and dale the sacred river ran, <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> Then reached the caverns measureless to man, <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean: <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> And 'mid this tumult Kubla heard from far <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> Ancestral voices prophesying war!

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> The shadow of the dome of pleasure <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> Floated midway on the waves; <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> Where was heard the mingled measure <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> From the fountain and the caves. <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> It was a miracle of rare device, <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice!

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">A damsel with a dulcimer <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> In a vision once I saw: <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> It was an Abyssinian maid, <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> And on her dulcimer she played, <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> Singing of Mount Abora. <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> Could I revive within me <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> Her symphony and song, <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> To such a deep delight 'twould win me <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> That with music loud and long <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> I would build that dome in air, <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> That sunny dome! those caves of ice! <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> And all who heard should see them there, <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> And all should cry, Beware! Beware! <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> His flashing eyes, his floating hair! <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> Weave a circle round him thrice, <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> And close your eyes with holy dread, <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> For he on honey-dew hath fed <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> And drunk the milk of Paradise.

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<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;">﻿**"The Tyger" by William Blake (1794)**

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Tyger! Tyger! burning bright <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> In the forests of the night, <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> What immortal hand or eye <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> In what distant deeps or skies <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> Burnt the fire of thine eyes? <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> On what wings dare he aspire? <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> What the hand dare sieze the fire?

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">And what shoulder, & what art. <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> Could twist the sinews of thy heart? <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> And when thy heart began to beat, <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> What dread hand? & what dread feet?

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">What the hammer? what the chain? <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> In what furnace was thy brain? <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> What the anvil? what dread grasp <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> Dare its deadly terrors clasp?

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">When the stars threw down their spears, <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> And watered heaven with their tears, <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> Did he smile his work to see? <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> Did he who made the Lamb make thee?

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Tyger! Tyger! burning bright <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> In the forests of the night, <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> What immortal hand or eye <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?

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<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;">**"Bright Star, Would I Were Steadfast as Thou Art" by John Keats (1819)**

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art-- <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> And watching, with eternal lids apart, <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite, <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> The moving waters at their priestlike task <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> Of pure ablution round earth's human shores, <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> Of snow upon the mountains and the moors-- <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> No--yet still stedfast, still unchangeable, <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> Pillow'd upon my fair love's ripening breast, <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> To feel for ever its soft fall and swell, <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> Awake for ever in a sweet unrest, <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath, <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> And so live ever--or else swoon to death.