Question

select the correct text in the passage. which three lines in this excerpt from samuel taylor coleridges \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 eer 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 threshers flail: and mid these dancing rocks at once and ever it flung up momently the sacred river.

Explanation:

The lines "And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething, As if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing, A mighty fountain momently was forced" depict a chaotic and dynamic scene of creation. The "ceaseless turmoil" and the earth "in fast thick pants breathing" suggest a wild, energetic force, and the sudden, forceful emergence of the fountain adds to the sense of excitement and chaos.

Answer:

And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething,
As if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing,
A mighty fountain momently was forced