Poetry and Animals
86POETRY AS FIELD GUIDE and amateurs who wanted to discover, describe, classify, and name (or learn the names of) new species. ...
POETRY AS FIELD GUIDE87 characteristics, and poetry foregrounds the pleasure and power of this act of naming. Poems can also re ...
88POETRY AS FIELD GUIDE is urging the cuckoo to sing, perhaps to speed up the coming of sum- mer.^7 The speaker addresses both ...
POETRY AS FIELD GUIDE89 to some extent remain uninterpretable and seemingly arbitrary, it is anonymous only to the completely ...
90POETRY AS FIELD GUIDE Writing poems about species thus helps to mark several communities— that of the perceived and described ...
POETRY AS FIELD GUIDE91 William Blake’s “The Lamb” and “The Tyger” are among the best- known animal poems in the language and f ...
92POETRY AS FIELD GUIDE of it (as the variant spelling suggests), presumably through Thomas Bewick’s or Thomas Pennant’s popula ...
POETRY AS FIELD GUIDE93 Many of the most famous poems of the English romantic period reflect responses to a particular species, ...
94POETRY AS FIELD GUIDE dramatically apparent.^23 The speaker’s curious response is not sponta- neous feeling or insight but a ...
POETRY AS FIELD GUIDE95 And murmurs musical and swift jug jug, And one low piping sound more sweet than all— Stirring the air w ...
96POETRY AS FIELD GUIDE the nightingale does not produce a single identifiable melody—a repeated series of notes or warbles lik ...
POETRY AS FIELD GUIDE97 is worth remembering that Keats composed the poem after listening to nightingales singing, as we know ...
98POETRY AS FIELD GUIDE Cluster’d around by all her starry Fays; But here there is no light, Save what from heaven is with the ...
POETRY AS FIELD GUIDE99 plainly on description of the bird as an end in itself. William Word- sworth’s “The Green Linnet” is a ...
100POETRY AS FIELD GUIDE The linnet’s song belies its camouflage and announces its presence. That the bird is simultaneously di ...
POETRY AS FIELD GUIDE101 So creeping through the mossy rail I in the thicket got to see: When one small bird of saddened green, ...
102POETRY AS FIELD GUIDE into an exploration of the boundaries of type, of what makes this indi- vidual bird an example of its ...
POETRY AS FIELD GUIDE103 Ere we were past the brambles and now near Her nest she sudden stops—as choaking fear That might betra ...
104POETRY AS FIELD GUIDE whiz, whirl, and “swee.” These terms are metaphoric and strangely ono- matopoeic yet convey something ...
POETRY AS FIELD GUIDE105 least approaching the reality of the song of this species. While reminis- cent of Wordsworth’s “There ...
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