Poetry for Students, Volume 29

Search for Truth, The
Diving into the Wreck:62–63
Sections, distinct
Heart’s Needle: 99
Seduction
The Night Piece: To Julia: 208
Seeking Insight
St. Roach: 285
Self-Esteem
Poem in Which My Legs Are
Accepted: 264
Sensual Pleasure
The Night Piece: To Julia: 208
Separation and Its Effects on the
Parent-Child Relationship
Heart’s Needle:97–98
Separation, family, 97–98
Sex/sexuality
The Night Piece: To Julia: 208
Poem in Which My Legs Are
Accepted: 272
Sexual Revolution
Howl:142–143
Poem in Which My Legs Are
Accepted: 266
Shame
An Attempt at Jealousy: 25
Heart’s Needle:98, 103
Shame and Remorse
Heart’s Needle: 98
Similes
America, America: 7
Sin
The Night Piece: To Julia:208,
213–214
Slavery
Native Guard:188–189, 191,
194–196, 199
On Being Brought from Africa to
America:221–222, 224–225,
227–229
Social awareness poetry
Pantoun for Chinese Women:
246
Sonnets
Native Guard:189, 201
Soviet Union
See:Russia
Spirituality
Howl:140, 144–147
Love Calls us to the Things of This
World:160–162, 178–180

See also:Religion

Spirituality and Dignity

Love Calls Us to the Things of This

World:161–162

Split lines

Babii Yar: 42

Stereotypes

See:Gender roles

Stream-of-consciousness

Howl:139–140

Structures, poem

Love Calls us to the Things of This

World:165–168, 178–180

Native Guard:201–202

St. Roach:288–291

Styles, literary

See individual entries, e.g. :

Allusions; Enjambments;

Metaphors

Suicide

An Attempt at Jealousy: 23

Supernatural

homage to my hips:115, 117,

123

Symbolism

America, America: 7

Howl:140, 153–155

Synecdoches

America, America: 7

An Attempt at Jealousy: 28

homage to my hips:117–118

T

Time and Its Passage

Heart’s Needle: 98

Tone, evolving

Poem in Which My Legs Are

Accepted: 266

Transcendentalism

Howl:140, 144–147

Transformation from the Mundane to

the Supernatural

homage to my hips: 117

Translations

America, America:6–7

An Attempt at Jealousy:33–35

Babii Yar: 50

From the Rising of the Sun:87–88,

91

Love Calls us to the Things of This

World:158, 171–172, 176

Truth

Babii Yar: 47

Diving into the Wreck:62–63,

67–68

Native Guard: 196

U

United Nations

America, America:7–8

United States

America, America:4–5, 7, 9–12

Diving into the Wreck:60–61, 64,

70–71, 73–74

Heart’s Needle:93–94

homage to my hips:113–115

Howl:131–134

Love Calls us to the Things of This

World:158, 164

Native Guard:182–183

On Being Brought from Africa to

America:221–223

Pantoun for Chinese Women: 241

Poem in Which My Legs Are

Accepted:260–262

St. Roach:281–282

See also:Cold war

V

Vernacular

America, America:15–20

Verses

From the Rising of the Sun: 82

Visual forms

Heart’s Needle:107–108

W

War

America, America: 5

War, cold

See:Cold war

Wars

America, America:1, 4–8

See also individual entries for

revolutions and civil wars, e.g. :

American Civil War; French

Revolution; Russian

Revolution

Subject/Theme Index

Subject/Theme Index