230INDEXCategorization, 53–54, 194; animals and,
19–20; in “The Animals of That
Country,” 64; Coetzee on, 20; Elizabeth
Costello on, 18, 20; of poetry, 19;
problem of, 23–24; racism and sexism
and, 20; species poem and, 84;
taxonomy and, 18–19; time period as, 21;
Whitman and, 61. See also Allegory,
animal as; Animals, as poetry category;
Authorial identity; Hybridity; National
identity; Platonic ideal; Individual
animal poetry
Cats: in “The Cat as Cat,” 148–49;
“Jubilate Agno” and, 125; in “Ode on
the Death of a Favorite Cat,” 21, 48–51,
200 n 29
Cavendish, Margaret, 45–48
Cave paintings, prehistoric: animal
as divine in, 71; of Chauvet, 7; hybridity
in, 155; realistic animals
in, 7, 32
Charles I: allegory of, in “The Hunting of
the Stag,” 45, 47; fall of, 45
Chaucer, Geoffrey. See “Nun’s Priest’s Tale,
The”
Chauvet, cave paintings of. See Cave
paintings, prehistoric
Clare, John, 206n33; “The Blackcap” by,
100–2; “The Flight of Birds” by, 103–4;
natural beauty and language for, 105;
“The Nightingale’s Nest” by, 100, 101,
102–3, 195; “The Progress of Rhyme” by,
104–5; “The Wryneck’s Nest” by, 102
Close reading, 193, 194
Coetzee, J. M.: on categories, 20; on
human-animal distinction, 16–17; The
Lives of Animals by, 4, 13–17, 82, 166–67;
Platonic ideal of, 21–22; on self-
consciousness, 17
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 73; “The
Nightingale” by, 93–96, 98; “Rime of the
Ancient Mariner” by, 57–58, 69, 71, 124;
on symbol and allegory, 31
“Come Into Animal Presence” (Levertov),
70
Community, animals as, 25; “Advice to a
Prophet” and, 76–77; animal and
environmental rights and causes and,
73, 77–78, 82; “The Animals” and,
79–82; animals as companions and,
79–80; “An Event” and, 75–76; “Four
Motions for the Pea Vines” and, 73–74;
individual animals and, 124; kinship
and, 73, 77; Kumin and, 74–75; Merwin
and, 77–79; in “The Nun’s Priest’s Tale,”
40–41
“Corsen’s Inlet” (Ammons), 73
“Cows on Killing Day, The” (Murray), 82,
165–66
Creaturely Poetics (Pick), 3
Creeley, Robert, 181–83
Critical analysis: animal studies and, 13;
flexible and hybrid, 24; specific poets
and, 13
“Crows” (Simic), 188–89
“Cuckoo Song, The” (anonymous), 87,
112–13; anonymity and, 88–89; spring
in, 88
Culture: animals and, 2, 195; “The Animals
of That Country” and, 63–64;
Australian, animals and, 203n47;
cultural theory, 6; in “The Monkeys,”
66–67; otherness in, 5; poetry and, 5–6;
species and, 86, 91; survival advantage
and, 32
“Current, The” (Merwin), 77“Darkling Thrush, The” (Hardy), 134–35
Darwin, Charles, 19, 86
Darwinian revolution, 1, 2
Death: artistic creation and, 173; in
“The Bear” (Kinnell), 175; elegies of
animals and, 149–53; in “History,” 185;
in “In the Mountain Tent,” 68; in “Out
of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking,”
133–34; of pets, 151–52; in “Rime of the