In "kubla khan," coleridge explores a fascination with exotic places and things. write an essay analyzing his view and portrayal of xanadu as an exotic place. why do you think coleridge is attracted to the exotic?

Considered one of the main expressions of romanticism, the poem is different in style and form to other poems composed by Coleridge. Although Kubla Khan is subtitled a "fragment", it lacks the fragmentary aspects of other Coleridge poems. Instead, its incomplete character represents the aspects of the creative process through its form and its message.

The first verse of the poem describes the dome of pleasure built by Khan in his capital Xanadu next to a sacred river, the Alfeo, which fed a magnificent fountain and runs "through immeasurable caverns for man, downwards, towards a sea without Sun". The second verse of the poem is the narrator's response to the intoxicating song of a maiden from Abyssinia, which leaves him unable to follow his inspiration unless he could hear it once more.

The palace "a miracle of rare design, a sunny mansion of pleasure with ice caves" is enclosed by circular walls: the image of a circle -which denotes perfection- is repeated throughout the poem, which is basically a glorification of natural creation in contrast to human creation

i think it is the third one.

the factors that the economies of the muslim empires prosper were:

1- land trade routes-located between three continents  

2- sea trade routes

trade contributed to the spread of muslim empires, and with that islamic culture led to a growing feeling of internationalism resulted in the transfer of technology, science, and other cultural forms.