A Noiseless Patient Spider: 199
Outside History: 228
Servitude
Huswifery:105, 108
Sex roles
An Ancient Gesture:4, 7–8, 14
Fragment 2: 72
Lineage: 162
Shame
The Hippopotamus: 94
Silence
Outside History: 226
Similes
The Black Snake: 23
The Fish:47, 51
Fragment 2: 81
The Hippopotamus: 95
Storm Ending: 279
The Wreck of the Hesperus: 325
Simplicity
Losses: 184
Sin
The Hippopotamus: 99
Slavery
Lineage:150–151
Runagate Runagate:231, 232–234,
236–238, 239, 241, 246, 249, 254
Storm Ending:283–284, 291
Social change
Runagate Runagate: 240
Social conventions
An Ancient Gesture: 19
Social values
Runagate Runagate: 244
Socialism
Some People Like Poetry:270–271
Sonnets
An Ancient Gesture: 19
Sorrow
Outside History: 209
Southern United States
Lineage:152–153, 158
Runagate Runagate:231, 232–233
Storm Ending:280, 283–284
Spanish culture
Lament for Ignacio Sa ́nchez
Mejı ́as:140–143
Spanish history
Lament for Ignacio Sa ́nchez
Mejı ́as:140–141
Spirituality
The Black Snake:29, 32, 34–35, 39
The Hippopotamus:86, 88
Huswifery:109, 111, 113
Lineage:149, 163
A Noiseless Patient Spider:196,
197, 198, 199, 200–204, 207
Outside History: 211
Storm Ending: 287
A Tree Telling of Orpheus:294, 304
Stereotypes
Runagate Runagate: 245
Strength
An Ancient Gesture: 15
Fragment 2:71, 72
Lineage:145, 147, 148–149
Struggle
Outside History: 218
Submission
Huswifery:104, 108, 113
Suffering
An Ancient Gesture: 9
Lineage: 153
Storm Ending:281–284
Supernatural
A Noiseless Patient Spider: 207
Surrealism
Lament for Ignacio Sa ́nchez
Mejı ́as:134–135
Survival
The Black Snake:23, 38
Symbolism
An Ancient Gesture:14, 16, 19
The Black Snake:31, 33
Fragment 2:63, 64, 79
Huswifery: 114
Lament for Ignacio Sa ́nchez
Mejı ́as: 137
Storm Ending:279, 281–284, 285,
288, 291, 292–293
A Tree Telling of Orpheus: 303
Sympathy
The Fish: 58
T
Tension
Outside History:218–219
The Wreck of the Hesperus: 325
Time
Lament for Ignacio Sa ́nchez
Mejı ́as:137, 139
Outside History: 218
Storm Ending:290, 291, 292–293
Tone
Losses: 171
Tradition
An Ancient Gesture: 14
The Hippopotamus: 88
Tragedy
Lament for Ignacio Sa ́nchez
Mejı ́as: 137
Outside History: 211
Some People Like Poetry: 271
The Wreck of the Hesperus:315,
326–327
Transcendence
The Black Snake: 35
A Noiseless Patient Spider: 199
Runagate Runagate:248, 249
The Wreck of the Hesperus: 315
Transformation
The Black Snake: 37
The Fish:46, 51, 52, 59
Fragment 2:73, 79
Huswifery: 106
Outside History:211, 217, 218
A Tree Telling of Orpheus:297,
298, 299–300, 305
The Wreck of the Hesperus:319,
326–327
Transition.SeeTransformation
Translation
Fragment 2:74–76
Some People Like Poetry:262,
263, 269–270, 272
Triumph
The Fish:46, 50, 60
Truth
An Ancient Gesture: 19
The Hippopotamus: 92
U
Understanding
The Black Snake: 40
Universality
Lineage:153–156
Runagate Runagate: 241
Urban life
Storm Ending:281, 282–283
V
Values
The Hippopotamus: 100
Vanity
The Hippopotamus:93, 94
Victory.SeeTriumph
Vietnam War, 1959-1975
A Tree Telling of Orpheus:295,
301–302
Violence
Lament for Ignacio Sa ́nchez
Mejı ́as: 126
Outside History: 211
Virtue
An Ancient Gesture:7, 9
Vulnerability
Storm Ending: 282
W
War
Losses:168, 170, 172–178, 185
Warning
Storm Ending:282–284
The Wreck of the Hesperus:318,
319, 325
Wit.SeeHumor
Work
An Ancient Gesture:4, 7
World War II
An Ancient Gesture:12–13
The Hippopotamus: 90
Losses:166, 167, 168, 171–172,
174, 175
Y
Youth
Losses:170, 175
Subject/Theme Index