Round 7: 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” since he “has drunk the milk of paradise.” (10[1])This poem’s final stanza 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. 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 titled (10[1])for a Mongol Emperor. ■END■ (10[2])

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