Explain with critical comments any two of the following passages with reference to their contexts: 

(a) Where was heard the mingled measure

From the fountain and the caves.

It was a miracle of rare device,

A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice!

(b) We sat grown quiet at the name of love; We saw the last embers of daylight die,

And in the trembling blue-green of the sky, A moon, worn as if it had been a shell

Washed by time's waters as they rose and fell, About the stars and broke in days and years.

(c) Weep no more, woful shepherds, weep no more, For Lycidas your sorrow is not dead,

Sunk though he be beneath the watery floor. So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed,

And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams and with new spangled ore,

Flames in the forehead of the morning sky: So Lycidas sunk low, but mounted high, Through the dear might of him that walk'd the waves.

(d) When the stars threw down their spears,

And water'd heaven with their tears,

Did he smile his work to see

Did he who made the Lamb make thee?

a).  "Kubla Khan" is considered to be one of the greatest poems by the English Romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who said he wrote the strange and hallucinatory poem shortly after waking up from an opium-influenced dream in 1797. In the first part of the poem, the speaker envisions the landscape surrounding the Mongol ruler and Chinese emperor Kubla Khan’s summer palace, called "Xanadu," describing it as a place of beauty, pleasure, and violence. 

These lines further describe the charms of displayed by the pleasure palace of the emperor at Zanadu. The pleasure-house of Kubla Khan was a very romantic and beautiful palace. The poet here says that the reflection of the pleasure-dome fell between the fountains mingling with the echoing sound coming out of the caves created for the onlooker an illusion of really rhythmical music. The palace was the construction of rare design and a wonderful triumph of architecture as it combined in itself a summer and a winter palace. The top of the building was warm because it was open to the sun while the low-lying chambers were kept cool by ice which never melted.

b). 

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