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Teaching Kubla Khan

Kubla Khan

Written in 1797, Kubla Khan is a classic work of the Romantic movement and one of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's most well-known poems. Coleridge claims to have written the poem upon waking from an opium-influenced dream after reading about the summer palace of the Mongol emperor Kublai Khan.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Public Domain

ESSENTIAL QUESTION:

Can something horrifying also be beautiful?
STANDARDS:

DEPTH OF KNOWLEDGE (DOK) LEVELS:

2,3
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