Poetry and Animals

INDEX233

understanding and representation in,

183–85; “Where Charity Begins” and,

191. See also Speaking animals

Individual animal poetry, 23, 194, 208n5,
209 n9; “Amanda Dreams She Has Died
and Gone to the Elysian Fields” as,
146–47; animal rights and, 120–21, 123;
anthropocentrism and, 123, 124;
anthropomorphism and, 126;
antihuman in, 141–42; “Ars Poetica: A
Found Poem” as, 146; “A Bird Came
Down the Walk” as, 126, 129–31; “A
Blessing” as, 147–48; “The Cat as Cat”
as, 148–49; communities and, 124; “The
Darkling Thrush” as, 134–35; Derrida
and, 123; elegies of animals and,
149–53; “The Green Linnet” as, 128;
“Hurt Hawks” as, 140–41; “Jubilate
Agno” as, 125–26, 209n12; lyric poem
and, 26; “The Moose” as, 70, 138–40,
148; moral status and, 120; “The Most
of It” as, 137; “Ode to a Nightingale” as,
129, 134–35; “On the Present Slaughter
of Feral Animals” and, 119–20; “Out of
the Cradle Endlessly Rocking” as,
132–34, 161; pack or herd and, 122–23,
142; “The Pasture” by, 135; pets and,
123, 145–46, 148; romanticism of, 25;
romantic period and, 129; “Song of
Myself ” and, 131–32; “The Sparrow” as,
142–45; “To a Skylark” as, 129; “The
Wood-Pile” as, 135–37; Wordsworth
and, 127–28
Infidel Poetics (Tiffany): “Cuckoo Song” in,
88–89; on obscurity of lyric poems, 89
Ingold, Tim, 55
International Academic and Community
Conference on Animals and Society:
Minding Animals (2009), 3
“In the Mountain Tent” (Dickey), 68
Inuit culture, 214n31; animals and, 56; “The
Bear” (Kinnell) and, 173–76

“Jaguar, The” (Hughes), 67; animal being

in, 15; Elizabeth Costello on, 14–18; kind

and species in, 17–18; misreading in,

15–16; otherness in, 16

Jamieson, Dale, 12

Jeffers, Robinson, 140–41

Jerboa, 207n44; “The Jerboa,” 108–10

“Jerboa, The” (Moore), 108–10

“Jubilate Agno” (Smart), 126, 209n12; soul

in, 125

Judeo-Christian tradition: human-animal

distinction and, 43, 54; soul as

individuality in, 125; “The Tyger”

and, 92

Kafka, Franz, 170

Keats, John: negative capability of, 7, 195;

“Ode to a Nightingale” by, 95, 96–98,

129, 134–35

Kinnell, Galway: “The Bear” by, 173–76; “To

Christ Our Lord” by, 69–70, 73

Kinsella, John, 195–96

Kumin, Maxine: “Amanda Dreams She

Has Died and Gone to the Elysian

Fields” by, 146–47; animal connection

for, 74–75; “Ars Poetica: A Found Poem”

by, 146; “Feeding Time” by, 74; “Telling

the Barn Swallow” by, 75

Lamb: in “The Lamb,” 91; in “The Taill of

the Wolf and the Lamb,” 33–36

“Lamb, The” (Blake), 91

Lambert, Helen, 164

Larkin, Philip, 151–52

Lehmann, Geoffrey, 79–82

Leopold, Aldo, 84–85

Levertov, Denise, 211n49; “The Cat as Cat”

by, 148–49; “Come Into Animal

Presence” by, 70

Levi-Strauss, Claude, 172

Linnaeus, Carl, 55; taxonomic project of,

85–86, 105

Lion, 30