Molly Clayton

English

23 December, 21:33

Which three lines in this excerpt from Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Kubla Khan" best reflect the theme of chaos and excitement in creation?

But oh! that deep romantic chasm which slanted

[Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover!

A savage place! as holy and enchanted]

As e'er beneath a [waning moon was haunted

By woman wailing for her demon-lover!]

And from this chasm, with [ceaseless turmoil seething,]

As if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing,

[A mighty fountain momently was forced : ]

Amid whose swift half-intermitted burst

Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail,

Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail:

And 'mid these dancing rocks at once and ever

[It flung up momently the sacred river.]