Poetry for Students, Volume 35

Subject/Theme Index

A
Absurdity
Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage:60–66
Activism
Blackberry Eating: 23
Uncoiling: 276
African American culture
Winter:295, 299, 302
African American history
I’m Nobody! Who are you?:86–87
Afterlife
The Dead:70–71, 73–74
In Music:103, 106, 108, 112,
114–115
Aging
Seven Ages of Man: 215
Alcoholism
Miniver Cheevy: 130
Alienation.See alsoLoneliness
Acquainted with the Night: 3
Miniver Cheevy: 129
Odysseus to Telemachus: 165
Allegories
The Dead: 73
Winter: 295
Alliteration
Acquainted with the Night: 18
Blackberry Eating:25, 26–27
Words Are the Diminution of All
Things:317–318, 318
Allusions
Odysseus to Telemachus:150, 158,
160, 161, 164–165
Ambiguity
Miniver Cheevy: 139
Seven Ages of Man:226–230

Ambivalence

Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage:56–60

American culture

Acquainted with the Night: 6

I’m Nobody! Who are you?: 87

Miniver Cheevy: 131

Seven Ages of Man: 219

American history

River of August: 195

Ancients and moderns.See

Mythology

Anger

Uncoiling: 279

Animals

Blackberry Eating: 41

River of August: 193

Winter:297, 299, 301

Anti-pastoralism

Seven Ages of Man: 215

Antisemitism

Odysseus to Telemachus: 150

Apophasis

I’m Nobody! Who are you?:92–99

Apostrophes

Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage:45,

50, 53–56

Archetypes

Acquainted with the Night:14–20

Blackberry Eating: 25

The Dead: 76

Art

Sonnet LXXXIX: 258

Winter: 308

Asian history

River of August:195, 199–202

Audience

Of Modern Poetry:178–179

Author’s voice

Blackberry Eating:41, 42

Autobiographical fiction

Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage: 45

The Dead: 76

Odysseus to Telemachus:165, 166

Words Are the Diminution of All

Things: 316

B

Beauty

I’m Nobody! Who are you?: 95

In Music: 123

Betrayal

River of August: 201

Blank verse

Seven Ages of Man:211, 216–217

Blue Ridge Mountains

Words Are the Diminution of All

Things:321–322

British history

Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage: 48

C

Capitalization

I’m Nobody! Who are you?:85–86

Change (Philosophy)

Blackberry Eating: 31

Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage:53–55

Winter:299, 304–306

Chaos

Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage:61,

63, 66

Characterization

Seven Ages of Man:224–226

Chicana (Literature)

Uncoiling:281–282

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