Round 8: Tossup 9

A Samuel Purchas travelogue inspired this poem’s opening lines. The speaker of this poem imagines people crying “Beware! Beware!” due to his “flashing eyes [and] flowing hair” (-5[1])since he “has drunk the milk of paradise.” (10[1])This poem’s final stanza describes (10[1])a dream containing “a damsel with a dulcimer (10[1])... singing of Mount Abora.” This poem (10[1])was left unfinished because the interruption of a “person from Porlock” (10[1])caused the author to forget the opium dream that inspired it. (-5[1])In this poem, the sacred river Alph runs through the “stately (10[1])pleasure dome” in the capital of Xanadu. For 10 points, name this Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem (-5[1])titled for a Mongol Emperor. ■END■ (10[2])

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