" Richard Holmes, in 1998, declared the importance of the poem's Preface while describing the reception of the 1816 volume of poems: " However, no contemporary critic saw the larger possible significance of Coleridge's Preface to ' Kubla Khan ', though it eventually became one of the most celebrated, and disputed, accounts of poetic composition ever written.

More recent criticism has pointed to the subtle, shifting symbolism of the pearl as one of the poem's chief virtues, recognizing that there is no inherent contradiction between the poem's elegiac and its allegorical aspects, and that the sophisticated allegorical significance of the Pearl Maiden is not unusual but in fact has several quite well known parallels in medieval literature, the most celebrated being probably Dante's Beatrice.

The poem's emphasis on imagination as subject of a poem, on the contrasts within the paradisal setting, and its discussion of the role of poet as either being blessed or cursed by imagination, has influenced many works, including Alfred Tennyson's " Palace of Art " and William Butler Yeats's Byzantium based poems.

In the poem, this has been transformed into an abbreviated " and " and given an apostrophe, with every " and " in the poem's additional lines then being written " an ' " as if to match.

Alliteration has developed largely through poetry, in which it more narrowly refers to the repetition of a consonant in any syllables that, according to the poem's meter, are stressed, as in James Thomson's verse " Come … dragging the lazy languid Line along ".

The poem's text, as it has survived, is in a very corrupt state ; it ends so abruptly with the request of Medea to accompany Jason on his homeward voyage, that it is assumed by most modern scholars that it was never finished.

It has been suggested by Elisabeth Schneider ( in Coleridge, Opium and " Kubla Khan ", University of Chicago Press, 1953 ), amongst others, that this prologue, as well as the Person from Porlock, was in fact fictional and intended as a credible explanation of the poem's seemingly fragmentary state as published.

According to Gould, " the message would be clear enough to the poem's Christian audience: only God can contribute enough power to overcome enemies to whom the poem has elsewhere given a Scriptural history.

Rather, " Ulisse " from Dante's Inferno is Tennyson's main source for the character, which has an important effect on the poem's interpretation.

The poem's ending line has been used as a motto by schools and other organisations.

While there is no question that the poem has elements of medieval allegory and dream vision ( as well as the slightly more esoteric genre of the verse lapidary ), all such attempts to reduce the poem's complex symbolism to one single interpretation have inevitably fallen flat.

The thesis of the poem's being a complete forgery has been proposed in the past but is widely discredited ; the poem's language has been demonstrated to be closer to authentic medieval East Slavic than practicable by a late 18th-century forger.

" Breslin, meanwhile, accounted for the poem's obliqueness by saying, " Paterson has a thickness of texture, a multi-dimensional quality that makes reading it a difficult but intense experience.

It has been variously characterised, ( modernly ) as an elegy, ( historically ) as a riddle, and ( in speculation on the poem's pre-history ) as a song or ballad with refrain.

Among proposed explanations for this anomaly, a Scandinavian inspiration for the Anglo-Saxon text offers one possible solution to this problem, and has similarly been considered as an explanation for its difficult language, but this theory, as with most others on the poem's prehistory, can only be regarded as hypothetical given lack of substantive corroborating evidence.

It has been suggested that this is the poem's protagonist.

Vian has proposed looking at the poem's encyclopedic content as paralleling the full range of the Homeric cycle poetry.

However, Professor Gollancz suggested that the Phantasma Radulphi attributed to Strode in the Vetus Catalogus could be the 14th-century elegiac poem The Pearl, but this has found no support from later scholars and, on the basis of the poem's dialect, seems very unlikely.

However, recent scholarship has pointed out the poem's lack of any single “ Last Man ” character.

Grunthos is reported to have been " disappointed " by the poem's reception, and was about to embark on a reading of his twelve-book epic entitled My Favorite Bathtime Gurgles when his own major intestine, in a desperate attempt to save life and civilization, leaped straight up through his neck and throttled his brain.

Porphyria, which usually involved delusional madness and death, was classified several years before the poem's publication ; Browning, who had an avid interest in such pathologies, may well have been aware of the new disease.

The poem's unique innovation, in comparison to the Orpheus and Eurydice myth, may be that the underworld is not a world of the dead, but rather a world of people who have been taken away when on the point of death.

Despite the poem's name, the year had been one of great tragedy, including the Great Fire of London.

There have been several variations on the text, including many parody texts substituted to mimic Kilmer's seemingly simple rhyme and meter, and questioning the poem's choice of metaphors.

The poem's implications and thematic concerns have been discussed academically with differing conclusions.

The Polish-born author Joseph Conrad, who had been christened Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, may have selected the second part of his pen name as an hommage to the poem's protagonist.

Lucan emphasizes the despair of his topic in the poem's first seven lines ( the same length as the opening to Virgil's Aeneid ):

The lyrics quote from several of the poem's verses, and the tracks ' highly stylized and heavily reverberated production values and pop mysticism have made it a favorite of samplers, beat-diggers, and fans of psychedelic jazz and R & B.

Hugh Kenner suggests that these " tenants " are the voices of The Waste Land and that Eliot is describing the method of the poem's narrative by saying that the speaker uses several different voices to express the impressions of Gerontion.

Terry Pratchett, in his ' Discworld ' novels, makes several references to the poem's well-known opening two lines " The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold / And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold "; much of the humour springing from a misunderstanding of ' cohorts ' to mean part of a suit of armour.

The celebration of deeds of ancient Danish and Swedish heroes, the poem beginning with a tribute to the royal line of Danish kings, but written in the dominant literary dialect of Anglo-Saxon England, for a number of scholars points to the 11th century reign of Canute, the Danish king whose empire included all of these areas, and whose primary place of residence was in England, as the most likely time of the poem's creation, the poem being written as a celebration of the king's heroic royal ancestors, perhaps intended as a form of artistic flattery by one of his English courtiers.

Most scholars consider it likely that the author was a man of literary and ecclesiastical education at the bishop's court, and that the poem's recipients were the clerics and noblemen at the same court.

At the obscenity trial, nine literary experts testified on the poem's behalf.

Additionally, various literary critics have noted the poem's likely influence on Garcilaso de la Vega's second eclogue.

In an 1894 study, J. J. Jusserand was primarily concerned with what he saw as the poem's psychological and sociopolitical content — as distinct from the aesthetic or literary — in a dichotomy common to all modern humanistic studies.

For Berry, poetry exists " at the center of a complex reminding " Both the poet and the reader are reminded of the poem's crafted language, of the poem's formal literary antecedents, of " what is remembered or ought to be remembered ," and of " the formal integrity of other works, creatures and structures of the world.

The collection of poems was published 25 May 1816, and Coleridge included " A Fragment " as a subtitle to the 54 line version of the poem to defend against criticism of the poem's incomplete nature.

Pope contends in the poem's opening couplets that bad criticism does greater harm than bad writing:

The statue came to be known as the Bronze Horseman because of the poem's great influence and success.

The poem's simple diction led Clive James to suggest that Smith attempted to write the poem so that the diction appeared ignorant of poetic convention yet was carefully crafted to appear more simple than it was.

A 2004 book by Howard W. Rosenberg, Cap Anson 2: The Theatrical and Kingly Mike Kelly: U. S. Team Sport's First Media Sensation and Baseball's Original Casey at the Bat, reprints a 1905 Thayer letter to a Baltimore scribe who was asking about the poem's roots.

However, not everyone was happy with the idea of the poem's being published, as Coleridge's wife, who was not with him, wrote to Thomas Poole, " Oh!

The poem's claim that the narrator would be inspired to act if the song of the maid could be heard was a belief that Coleridge held regarding Evans after she become unattainable to him.

' Amazing Grace ' was not the original title of this hymn: it was originally written as a poem entitled ' Faith's Review and Expectation ' and appears in Book I of the Olney Hymns with the poem's title and ' hymn 41 '.

The title was chosen late in the poem's gestation ; it refers to the youngest of the three Parcae ( the minor Roman deities also called The Fates ), though for some readers the connection with that mythological figure is tenuous and problematic.

* In his Inferno, Dante portrayed Boniface VIII as destined for hell, where simony is punished, although Boniface was still alive at the fictional date of the poem's story.

Another story of the poem's origin claimed that Helmer's funeral was actually held on the morning of May 2 after which McCrae wrote the poem in 20 minutes.

John Gay, who came a little later was criticized for his poem's artificiality by Doctor Johnson and attacked for their lack of realism by George Crabbe, who attempted to give a true picture of rural life in his poem The Village.

Hagley Hall was the seat of Thomson's patron the Baron Lyttleton, and the poem's description of a sylvan dale is strikingly reminiscent of the Brandywine Valley.

However, the poem's claim that Henry was buried in Nousiainen was already an official truth around 1300, when his alleged bones were translated from Nousiainen to the Cathedral of Turku.

Biographers often interpret that " Annabel Lee " was written for Poe's wife Virginia, who had died two years prior, as was suggested by poet Frances Sargent Osgood, though Osgood is herself a candidate for the poem's inspiration.