Assonance
Babii Yar: 50
Love Calls us to the Things of This
World: 162
Autobiographies
Native Guard: 198
When We Two Parted:
295–296
See also:Confessional poetry
movement
Avant-garde:
Poem in Which My Legs Are
Accepted:268–270
B
Babi Yar
Babii Yar:44–45
Beat movement
Heart’s Needle: 99
Howl:131–132, 134, 138–139, 141,
143
Beauty
homage to my hips:116–117, 119,
122
Betrayal
When We Two Parted:298–299
Birth of the Beat Movement, The
Howl:138–139
Black arts movement
homage to my hips:117, 119–120,
127–128
Black power movement
homage to my hips:118–119
Blues lyrics
America: America: 7
C
Captivity
See:Slavery
Captivity and Freedom
Native Guard:188–189
Carpe Diem
The Night Piece: To Julia: 207
Catalog style
The Night Piece: To Julia: 209
Cavalier poetry
The Night Piece: To Julia: 209
China
Pantoun for Chinese Women:
240–241, 244, 246–248,
253–254
Civil rights movement
homage to my hips:118–119
St. Roach:286–288
Cold war
Heart’s Needle:99–100
Howl:141–142
Commercialism
An Attempt at Jealousy: 27
Communism
America, America:15, 19–20
An Attempt at Jealousy:28–29
Babii Yar:36–37, 43–44
From the Rising of the Sun:78,
83–84
Howl:141–143
Love Calls us to the Things of This
World: 164
Conceits
Love Calls us to the Things of This
World:161–163
Condensed style
Howl: 140
Confessional poetry movement
Heart’s Needle:93, 99,
101–103
Howl: 140
Cultural Notions of Beauty
homage to my hips:116–117
Cultural Traditions
Pantoun for Chinese Women: 244D
Danger
The Night Piece: To Julia:
207–208
Death
Babii Yar: 41
Native Guard: 187
Death
Babii Yar:41, 43
Native Guard: 187
On Being Brought from Africa to
America:226–227
Pantoun for Chinese Women:
245–248
Death and Christian Faith
On Being Brought from Africa to
America: 226
Designs, poem
Heart’s Needle:107–108
Dialectic
Native Guard:201–202
Dignity
Love Calls us to the Things of This
World:161–162
Divinity
An Attempt at Jealousy:24–25, 27,
32
Divorce
Heart’s Needle:97–98
Drugs, psychoactive
Howl:133, 139E
Eating disorders
homage to my hips: 119
Emancipation
homage to my hips:115, 117, 123
See also:Freedom
England
Love Calls us to the Things of This
World:162–163The Night Piece: To Julia:
205–206, 209–210
When We Two Parted:296–297,
301–302
English Civil War
The Night Piece: To Julia:
209–210
Enjambments
An Attempt at Jealousy: 28
Love Calls us to the Things of This
World: 177
Epigraphs
Pantoun for Chinese Women:242,
246
Equality
On Being Brought from Africa to
America: 225
Europe
From the Rising of the Sun:77–79,
82–84
When We Two Parted:300–302
See also:England; Russia
Exile
America, America:2, 8–9, 14
An Attempt at Jealousy: 23
From the Rising of the Sun:77–78,
83
When We Two Parted:297, 303
Experimental line breaks
Poem in Which My Legs Are
Accepted:265–266, 269
Experimentation
Poem in Which My Legs Are
Accepted:268–273
Exploring Gender Roles and Their
Meaning
Diving into the Wreck: 63
Extended metaphors
Love Calls us to the Things of This
World:161–163
St. Roach: 286F
Faith
See:Religion
Feminist movements
Diving into the Wreck:64–66,
72–73
homage to my hips: 120
Poem in Which My Legs Are
Accepted:266–270
St. Roach: 287
Figurative language
America, America: 7
Flashbacks
America, America: 7
Flesh versus Spirit
Love Calls Us to the Things of This
World:160–161
Folk songs
America, America: 7Subject/Theme Index