Folklore
America, America:17–20
An Attempt at Jealousy:25–27
The Night Piece: To Julia: 213
France
When We Two Parted:
300–302
Free verse
Babii Yar: 42
Diving into the Wreck: 64
Poem in Which My Legs Are
Accepted:265–266
Free verse movement
America, America:1–2, 6–8,
13–14, 16–17
Freedom
On Being Brought from Africa to
America: 226
Freedom
homage to my hips:115, 117, 123
Native Guard:188–189, 194–195
On Being Brought from Africa to
America: 226
French Revolution
When We Two Parted:300–302
G
Gender roles
Diving into the Wreck:61, 63,
67–73, 75
homage to my hips:115, 117, 119,
121–123
The Night Piece: To Julia:
214–219
Pantoun for Chinese Women:
244–248
Poem in Which My Legs Are
Accepted:262, 270–275, 278
See also:Feminist movements
Genocide
Babii Yar: 41
Genocide
Babii Yar:41, 43
Ghazal
Native Guard: 200
God-like
An Attempt at Jealousy:24–25,
27, 32
Gods
Howl:136–137
H
Holocaust
Babii Yar:41, 43, 45–48
Homosexuality
Diving into the Wreck: 72
Howl:132, 139, 142–143
Human rights poetry
Babii Yar: 42
I
Iambic feet
The Night Piece: To Julia: 209
Identity
Babii Yar:41–42
Ignorance
St. Roach: 285
Imagery
America: America: 7
An Attempt at Jealousy:27–28
Heart’s Needle: 108
Howl: 141
Love Calls us to the Things of This
World: 162
The Night Piece: To Julia:
211–214
Pantoun for Chinese Women:
248–251
Imagination
Love Calls us to the Things of This
World: 161
See also:Romantic movement
Individualism
Howl: 139
See also:Romantic movement
Industrial Revolution
When We Two Parted: 302
Infanticide
Pantoun for Chinese Women: 245
Iraq
America, America:1–2, 4–8,
13–17, 19–20
Irony
America, America: 7
Howl:140–141
Native Guard:193–196
Isolation
From the Rising of the Sun:81,
85–87J
Jealousy
An Attempt at Jealousy:24, 26,
31–33
Jealousy and Abandonment
An Attempt at Jealousy: 26
Jews
Babii Yar:39–41, 43–48
Judgment
From the Rising of the Sun:81–82
Judgment and the Apocalypse
From the Rising of the Sun:81–82K
Korea, South
St. Roach: 288L
Language, use of
America, America:7, 15–20Lesbian-gay movement
Diving into the Wreck: 72
See also:Homosexuality
Liberation from Expectation
homage to my hips: 117
Lithuanian
From the Rising of the Sun:77–79,
82–84
Love
An Attempt at Jealousy:22, 27,
32–33
Love Calls us to the Things of This
World: 178
The Night Piece: To Julia: 208
Love as Magic and Miracle
An Attempt at Jealousy: 27
Lyric form
When We Two Parted: 300M
Madness
Howl: 139
Magic
homage to my hips:115, 117, 123
Malaysia
Pantoun for Chinese Women:
240–241, 244, 246–248,
253–254
Maternity and Motherhood
Pantoun for Chinese Women: 245
McCarthyism
Howl:142–143
Media
America, America: 5
Diving into the Wreck:69–70
Love Calls us to the Things of This
World: 164
Memory
See:Remembrance
Mental illness
Howl:132, 139
Metaphors
America, America: 7
An Attempt at Jealousy:25, 28
Diving into the Wreck:62, 64
Heart’s Needle: 99
homage to my hips:117–118
Howl: 155
Love Calls us to the Things of This
World:161–163
Native Guard: 199
St. Roach: 286
Metaphysical Poetry
Love Calls us to the Things of This
World:161–163
The Night Piece: To Julia: 209
Metonymy
America, America: 7
Minimalism movement
homage to my hips: 118Subject/Theme IndexSubject/Theme Index