Poetry and Animals

INDEX237

period, 90, 93; “The Sea-Elephant” as,
112–13; taxonomy and, 83, 84, 85–86;
“Tern” as, 114–15; “The Tyger” as, 91–92;
“The Wryneck’s Nest” as, 102; Yoon
and, 84; “You’ll know Her—by Her
Foot—” as, 105–7
Spenser, Edmund, 43–45
Stag, 45–48
State power, 29
Stewart, Susan: on anthropomorphism, 9,
10; “Four Questions Regarding the
Dreams of Animals” by, 72–73; “The
Owl” by, 185–86; Poetry and the Fate of
the Senses by, 9; on reproduction and
poetry, 9–10
“Strictly Buccolic” (Simic), 186–87
Subjectivity, 55, 123, 127; “What Is It Like to
Be a Bat?” and, 192
Sustainable poetry, 8

“Taill of the Wolf and the Lamb, The”
(Henryson), 33; Aesopic tradition and,
36; categorical meanings in, 35–36;
communion in, 34; divinity in, 34, 35;
law in, 35; tyrants in, 34
“Talking to Mice” (Auden), 59
Taxonomy, 204n5; arbitrary patterns and,
19; categorization and, 18–19; Linnaeus
and, 85–86, 105; species poem and, 83,
84, 85–86
“Teaching a Sea Turtle Suddenly Given the
Power of Language, I Begin by Saying”
(Rogers), 168–69
“Telling the Barn Swallow” (Kumin), 75
“There Was a Boy” (Wordsworth), 105
therio-primitivism, 67
Thoreau, Henry David, 21
Tiffany, Daniel, 88–89
Tiger, 205n19; in “The Tyger,” 91–92
“To a Skylark” (Shelley), 21; as individual
animal poem, 129
“To Christ Our Lord” (Kinnell), 73; conflict
and death in, 69–70

“To the Unseeable Animal” (Berry), 70

“Turning” (Ammons), 167–68

Tu r t l e , 16 8 – 6 9

“Two Look at Two” (Frost), 137–38

“Tyger, The” (Blake), 91; Judeo-Christian

tradition and, 92

Uexküll, Jacob von, 52

Ve n d l e r, He l e n , 9 7

Wal d e n (Thoreau), 21

Warren, Robert Penn, 141–42

Whale, 77

“What Is It Like to Be a Bat?” (Nagel), 163,

192

Wheatley, Edward, 29

“Where Charity Begins” (Edson), 191

“White-Tailed Hornet” (Frost), 62

Whitman, Walt: categories and, 61; “Out of

the Cradle Endlessly Rocking” by,

132–34, 161; “Song of Myself ” by, 60–61,

131–32

“Why Look at Animals” (Berger), 3

Wilbur, Richard: “Advice to a Prophet” by,

76–77; “Beasts” by, 71; “Event, An” by,

75–76

Williams, Williams Carlos, 183; on poetry,

6–7; “The Sea-Elephant” by, 112–13; “The

Sparrow” by, 142–45

Wilson, E. O., 3

“Windhover, The” (Hopkins), 116

Wolf: allegory and, 30; in “The Taill of the

Wolf and the Lamb,” 33–36

Wolfe, Cary, 5

Wolverine: “For the Last Wolverine,”

171–73; in The Savage Mind, 172

Women: as cats in “Ode on the Death of a

Favorite Cat,” 48–50; as hunted animal,

43–45; in “The Nun’s Priest’s Tale,” 40;

in Renaissance sonnets, 44–45

“Wood-Pile, The” (Frost), 135–37

Woolf, Virginia, 88