Answer:
Line 30 in the poem suggests that there was a war that was about to be waged in Xanadu.
Explanation:
"Kubla Khan" is one of the most celebrated incomplete poetry in literature. It is written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The poem is a fragment of the dream or vision that he saw but could not write the full dream as he remembered only a part.
In line 30, the speaker said that he heard the ancestral voices of war. If the poem would have been written completely, or if the story would have continued there would have been a war waged on Xanadu. The beauty of Xanadu state would have been completely shattered with the war.
Line 30:
<em>"Ancestral voices prophesying war!"</em>
Answer:
This statement means that it is self-limiting to subject our lives and decisions to patterns that we are already used to.
Explanation:
A hobgoblin is a spirit creature known in folklores as being mischievous. Consistency is depicted to be a negative trait as it is compared to something mischievous.
Ralph Waldo Emerson hereby implies that it is a mischievous or menacing attitude to get ourselves into a pattern because it is what we have always known to be true. This pattern limits us and prevents us from thinking outside the box.
