... presenting a different mental image of the mind. Each image invokes some common notion related to the workings of the mind and our consciousness. The starting phrase of "skull with softly flickering" (Line 1) is an example of this and reminds the reader of a very common picture of the nerves in the brain ... . The image formed by this metaphor is that when we touch a hot thing, our first reaction is to move away from it. This is because the brain instinctively sends a signal to our body part saying it do so. Similarly, in the next phrase she invokes an auditory image by writing ... accor...

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... Emerson's poetics of nature writing beyond Nature. On my reading, Emerson has his own more empirical, late natural history projects, work also left largely unfinished and generally neglected by critics because it, too, was found wanting, as Robinson suggests of Thoreau's post-Walden work, by a "New Critical celebration" of "formal and symbolic achievement." (9) I give particular attention to Emerson's late essay " ... in perceiving the natural world not as "irreducibly material" or "literal," but as imaginatively real--useful, as Emerson would put it, "as raw material of tropes and symb...

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