Xanadu

One such is the poem of “Kubla Khan”, a piece written after he awoke from an opium induced dream. The work describes a wondrous and beautiful land called Xanadu, where the great river Alp stretches through this wild and mysterious land. The title itself refers to the grandson of the vicious war Mongol, Genghis Khan. It is his palace, referred to as a pleasure dome, that is heavily described in the work. The…

The film Citizen Kane starts as the main character, Charles Foster Kane, mutters his last words and dies; his last words were “Rosebud.” The entirety of the movie is based around trying to find out the significance of rosebud, and in doing so the viewers get a look at the summary of Charles Kane’s life through flashbacks. Throughout his life, Charles Kane used his wealth to make millions, however by the end of the film we realize that being a tycoon in the United States, the “American Dream,”…

Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote much during the Romantic period in literature, and he used naturalistic elements in his writing. Coleridge uses a naturalistic style of writing in many of his poems, especially in “Kubla Khan” and in “The Eolian Harp”. Coleridge seems to often escape reality with his beautiful, naturalistic descriptions of a lands far away, and often times describes a man who longs for those far away lands and the treasures within them. Coleridge, in regard to his use of naturalism…

the Ancient Mariner are two poems that compare and contrast in the most touching way. Kubla Khan is the poem of Xanadu it is a poem that talks about the Kubla Khan and visions he has while listening to the river beside him. In the vision the Kubla Khan sees a woman playing an instrument and singing which then reminds him of himself singing his own song, leading to the vision of Xanadu. Towards the end of the poem there is more emotion the poem becomes…

symbolic gesture, to fulfill his happiness in other ways. Therefore spending money and having ownership of objects was trying to fill in an empty space. After his failure in the political field and with Susan’s opera career, Kane built his estate, Xanadu, to isolate himself and Susan from those who spurned his attempts at manipulation, and he fills the castle with inanimate objects. (Fig.1) He takes complete control over the world he’s built, and nothing could have challenged his authority in…

Opening Statement- HAVE THIS MEMORIZED!!! The plaintiff has one preliminary matter to address. Before the plaintiff begins the opening statement, May we introduce ourselves? Silva Morel, an immigrant from Xanadu craved to come to the United States with the American dream. Morel was more than prepared to come to the U.S with the ambition and the willingness to build and generate a change, a difference not only in America but in the whole world. The American dream was yet to be fulfilled.…

Agnes Moorehead, Ruth Warrick, and Welles himself. As for the cinematography, Welles teamed up with Gregg Toland to create a never-before-seen cinematic experience. The movie opens up with several approaching shots of Kane’s self-made castle called Xanadu accompanied by suspenseful music which crescendos then halts as soon as it reaches the window of the room that…

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For example, in one of the opening scenes Xanadu is shown in a low angle shot, this is suggesting to the audience that Xanadu is a place of great power. Another example of a low-angle shot would be the scene of Kane’s first Christmas when Thatcher gives him a new sleigh. The shot is shown through a mix of high and low angles. It shows…

F. Scott Fitzgerald 's The Great Gatsby illustrates how the desire to attend the desperate pursuit of the American dream in making material wealth the primary indicator of success led Jay Gatsby to a tragic ending. First, What the American dream had as effect on Jay Gatsby’s and Charles Foster Kane’s lives. Jay Gatsby began existence with little, as the child of genuinely unsuccessful ranchers. When he was a young fellow he had even less, having willfully antagonized himself from his family,…