Shelley uses nature as a magazine of images. She provides him with delightful similes and metaphors which he uses in wild profusion to illustrate his concepts.

For example, images after images have been piled up in quick succession for the skylark. It is a “cloud of fire” an unembodied joy”, a “golden glowworm”, equally liberal is his use of images to illustrate the different and changing aspects of the west wind. The abstract and the concrete, the real and the imaginary, freely mingle in the images of Shelley, and so do the different senses.