Round 7: Tossup 9

A Samuel Purchas travelogue inspired this poem’s opening lines. (10[1])The speaker of this poem imagines people (10[1])crying “Beware! Beware!” due to his “flashing eyes [and] flowing hair” since he (10[1])“has drunk the milk of paradise.” This poem’s final stanza (-5[1])describes a dream containing “a damsel with a dulcimer ... singing of Mount Abora.” This poem was left unfinished because the interruption of a “person from Porlock” caused the author to forget the opium dream that inspired it. (10[1])In this poem, the sacred river Alph runs through the “stately pleasure dome” (10[1])in the capital of Xanadu. For 10 points, name this Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem titled for a Mongol Emperor. ■END■ (10[3])

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