INDEX 391ro’s, 339–43; poets who enjoyed, 147, 182,
231, 233–35; on rocks, 165, 286, 288–89;
Walcott ’s, 339–43. See also Specific painters
Paradise Lost (Milton), 47
Parkman, Francis, 9, 10
Passaic River, 14, 143, 157–58
Passenger pigeons, 11
“The Pasture” (Frost), 118
Payne, Roger and Katy, 206, 303
Paz, Octavio, 148, 150
Perse, Saint-John, 336
“The Pettichap’s Nest” (Clare), 62
“Pied Beauty” (Hopkins), 94–96
“Pike” (Hughes), 7, 183, 208, 218, 232, 330–
32, 334
Pines. See Trees
Pissarro, Camille, 339–42
“The Place for No Story” (Jeffers), 171
Plath, Sylvia, 292, 331
Plato, 81
Pocahontas, 296
Poe, Edgar Allan, 151, 329
“Poem” (Bishop), 233–36, 340
Poems and poetry, “concrete,” 242; definitions
of, 57, 124, 139, 183, 242, 314; likened to ani-
mals, 327; linking humans with wilderness,
3–6, 13, 32–33, 302; local emphasis of, 7, 24,
41, 64–74, 141–49, 157–60, 188, 272; lyric,
157; moments of recognition in, 6–8, 14, 15,
143–50, 155, 214, 223–24, 256, 269, 272–73,
289, 301, 307, 308, 339, 344, 347–48, 357;
news from, 3–4, 7–8, 13–15, 160–61, 188,
208, 245, 279, 298, 307, 355–56; tasks of, 21,
27, 128, 135, 137–38, 208, 272; Whitman
on American, 67–68. See also Imagination;
Language; Metaphor; Rhyme; Rhythm;
Sonnets;Specific poems, poets, and motifs
Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery
(Clare), 57
“Poetry” (Moore), 183
Poetry Is (Hughes), 327
Pollution, 8, 11, children on, 355–56; in
Hughes, 332–33; Levertov, 266, 269, 273;
Lowell, 264–65; Roethke, 220–21; Wil-
liams, 143, 157–59. See also Land: environ-
mental damage to
Ponce de Leon, Juan, 151, 152
Pope, Alexander, 43
“The Porcupine” (Kinnell), 311
“The Pot of Flowers” (Williams), 151
Pound, Ezra, 3, 151, 273, 351; on making it
new, 143; on “news that stays news,” 3–4,
160–61, 298; parody of Whitman, 72; as
translator, 32, 213, 330
“A Prayer in Spring” (Frost), 117
“Prayer to the Snowy Owl” (Haines), 286
“Primrose” (Williams), 144
Proverbs (Bible), 24–25
“Psalm” (Oppen), 5, 15, 224–27, 244, 310
Psalm 104 (Bible), 2, 15, 24, 25–27, 71–72
Psalms (Bible), 4, 14, 23–27, 56, 95, 126, 165–
66, 224, 227, 260–61, 266–67, 309, 325
“Pueblo Pot” (Millay), 189
“The Pulse” (Levertov), 271–72
Pumas. See Mountain lions
Puns, 54, 55, 101, 199, 212, 294–95, 297, 299
Purcell, Henry, 95
Puritans, 20, 151, 152“The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket”
(Lowell), 159, 260, 303
Quechua people, 197
“Queen-Ann’s Lace” (Williams), 144
“Questions to Tourists Stopping by a Pine-
apple Field” (Merwin), 304–5
“The Quest of the Orchis” (Frost), 117
“Quinnapoxet” (Kunitz), 204“Ragged Island” (Millay), 192
Railroads, 10, 20, 38, 99, 135, 136, 337
Rain.See Water
“Rain” (Thomas), 134
“Rain at Night” (Merwin), 305–6
The Rain in the Trees (Merwin), 306, 336–37
Rasles, Sebastian, 152
Ray, Man, 151
Recognition (Seeing things afresh; Vision),
6–8, 14, 15, 143–50, 155, 214, 223–24, 269,
272–73, 289, 301, 307, 308, 339, 344, 347–48
“A Red, Red Rose” (Burns), 32
“The Red Wheelbarrow” (Williams), 2–3,
149–50, 152, 223–24, 341
Religion, 1–2, 4–5, 8, 19–27; in Clare, 56, 62;
Dickinson, 69–70, 76; Hopkins, 94–103;
Levertov, 267; Lowell, 260; poetry likened
to, 123, 128, 137; and shamans, 1, 286–87;
Swenson, 241; Whitman, 69–71, 73
“Renascence” (Millay), 185–86
“Report to Crazy Horse” (Stafford), 252
Residence on Earth (Neruda), 196
The Return of the Native (Hardy), 89
Rexroth, Andrée, 213–15
Rexroth, Kenneth, 196, 211–15, 351, 366;
“Andrée Rexroth,” 213–14; “Gic to Har,”