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Which 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.}

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Answer: Two of the Three are:

" {ceaseless turmoil seething,}"

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"{A mighty fountain momently was forced :}"

Step-by-step explanation:

Just took the test, previous person must have guessed. I used clues such as "seething","turmoil", and "mighty", "forced". To me, these words are chaotic whilst also electric, like a mighty storm brewing.

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"Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover!
A savage place! as holy and enchanted"

These lines clearly show the theme of chaos and excitement in creation.
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