"Who wrote the line ""In Xanadu did Kublai Khan a stately pleasure dome decree""?"
Stately Pleasure Dome multi-pitch slab climbs many of them easy or moderate. Stately Pleasure Dome Stately Pleasure Dome is the unofficial name for the prominent south-southwestern portion of Polly Dome, a granite dome on the northwest side of Tenaya Lake and Tioga Road in the Yosemite high country. Stately Pleasure Dome consists of glaciated and exfoliated granite rock that rises steeply from the lake shore; the very steep east side of the dome is popular with rock climbers, who gave the dome its name. The name presumably comes from the poem Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The south face of the formation
Kubla Khan that he can recover the vision, and the Preface, like a Coleridge poem that is quoted in it, "The Picture", states that visions are unrecoverable. The poem begins with a fanciful description of Kublai Khan's capital Xanadu, which Coleridge places near the river Alph, which passes through caverns before reaching a dark or dead sea. Although the land is one of man-made "pleasure", there is a natural, "sacred" river that runs past it. The lines describing the river have a markedly different rhythm from the rest of the passage: <poem> In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree :