The following descriptions do not represent the central image of the excerpt from "Kubla Khan":
<em>A worker cutting the grain in the field.</em>
<em>The earth clad in woolen pants.</em>
The central image that the excerpt represents is one of a river bursting forth from the earth as well as hail ricocheting off of the ground. The whole excerpt is talking about how the rives comes rushing down, lie something that is created at each new moment. The main focus of the whole excerpt is the power and strength of the water and how it moves.
The Nun's
Priest's Tale is one of Chaucer's most amazing and nice tales, and on several
levels it functions. The tale is an outstanding example of the literary style
known as a bestiary (or a beast fable) in which animals behave like human
beings.
