Advertisements
Advertisements
प्रश्न
Answer the following question in 120-150 words.
Comment on the significance of the river Alph in "Kubla Khan"?
उत्तर
The river Alph in "Kubla Khan" is significant as a symbol of the creative power of the human imagination. The speaker describes the river as "holy" and originating from a "cavern" before flowing through "measureless" and "sacred" grounds. This imagery suggests that the river is a source of divine inspiration and creativity, and that it represents the deep subconscious or mystical realm of the human mind. The river is also associated with the process of artistic creation, as the speaker describes the "ancestral voices prophesying war" that he hears while under the influence of the river's magical power. The fact that the river is eventually interrupted by a "mortal" and "damsel" who forbid the speaker from completing his vision suggests that the limits of human imagination are always subject to the restrictions of the physical world. In this way, the river Alph represents both the limitless potential and the inherent limitations of human creativity.
APPEARS IN
संबंधित प्रश्न
Find out where the river Alph is.
Does the poem have a real geographical location? How does the poet mix up the real and the imaginary to give a sense of the surreal?
Pick out
contrasting images that are juxtaposed throughout the poem.
Pick out
images that strike the eye and images that strike the ear, both positive and negative.
Pick out
the words used to describe the movement of water.
What is the discordant note heard at the end of the third stanza? Can we relate this to the grandeur and turmoil that are a part of an emperor’s life?
Which are the lines that refer to magical elements?
What is poetic ecstasy likened to?
The poem is a fragment. What do you think has made it a lasting literary piece?
Write short descriptions of five other rare musical instruments that are used by folk cultures.
The poem is a product of the subconscious fusion of dream images and ideas from Coleridge’s wide reading. Which of the details in the poem do you think are factual, and which imaginary? Surf the internet to get interesting details.
| But oh! that deep romantic chasm which slanted Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover! A savage place! as holy and enchanted As e’er beneath a waning moon was haunted By woman wailing for her demon-lover! And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething, As if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing, A mighty fountain momently was forced: Amid whose swift half-intermitted burst Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail, Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher’s flail: And mid these dancing rocks at once and ever It flung up momently the sacred river. Five miles meandering with a mazy motion Through wood and dale the sacred river ran, Then reached the caverns measureless to man, And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean; And ’mid this tumult Kubla heard from far Ancestral voices prophesying war! |
- How is the chasm described in these lines?
- What did Kubla Khan hear from afar?
- Which sacred river is being referred to in the lines above?
- What are bursts of water compared to?
- What does the phrase By woman wailing for demon-lover mean?
- An apt antonym for the word ‘savage’ is ______.
- civilized
- vagabond
- severe
- ferocious
