



Romantic "nature" is an expressive language, a vehicle for self-consciousness. As in "The Solitary Reaper," natural images provide us with a way of thinking about human feelings and the self. So the natural image is at the same time an expressive one. (For example, if a tree can survive a great storm, the person who perceives it can survive his or her own trials.) Wordsworth uses mimetic language to describe or imitate nature. But at the same time, his mimetic imagery expresses something about the speaker's reaction. "The Solitary Reaper," for example, is about the speaker's emotional reaction to the Reaper's song: the poem's natural images represent an overflowing mind.
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Susi
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