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As in the earlier part of the poem, where a woman was wailing for her ‘demon lover’, Coleridge’s imagining of this beautiful singer is profoundly Romantic in the passionate allure that she has for him. That she is a singer with her ‘symphony and song’ gives her the significance of representing not only the beloved but the artist too. She is the Muse, indeed, who inspires the creative imagination: “Could I revive within me her symphony and song, to such a deep delight ‘twould win me, that with music loud and long, I would build that dome in air…”. Here, in a splendid climax, Coleridge achieves the unity of his ‘fragment’. The imagining he has had of artistic accomplishment, in a visitation from the Muse, enables him to construct the beautiful world (of Xanadu) that has defined Coleridge’s human experience through an imaginative journey. Such a power belongs uniquely to that artist-in Romantic teaching- and it is with a vision of himself, as poet maker, seer and visionary, that Coleridge closes the poem, in an image of the furor poeticus, the divine ecstasy of creative imagination, in its natural embodiment, both magnificent and dreadful: “Beware! Beware! His flashing eyes, his floating hair! Weave a circle round him thrice, and close your eyes with holy dread, for he on honey-dew hath fed, and Drunk the milk of paradise.”
The outpouring of joy in the magic realm of starry sky and moon- lit landscape indicates that the fourth and the fifth stanzas mark the climax of the poem. Keats's keen perception, penetrating to the essence of things, provides him with intimations of immortality and transcendence. The joy and happiness felt in an abstract way in the first and second stanzas seem to be "repeated in a finer tone," to use a phrase of Keats's, in the marvelously pictorial fifth stanza:
“I cannot see what flowers are at my feet, Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs, But, in embalmed darkness… The...