Can Poetry Save the Earth?: A Field Guide to Nature Poems

INDEX 395

Vision. See Recognition
“The Voice” (Hardy), 91

“Waiting” (Kaufman), 278
“Waking Early Sunday Morning” (Lowell),
259
Walcott, Derek, 14, 335–43,371; “The An-
tilles: Fragments of Epic Memory,” 338;
“The Castaway,” 336; “A Far Cry from
Africa,” 336; influences on, 57, 89; Omeros,
336–38; as painter, 147, 335, 338–40, 342–43;
Tiepolo’s Hound, 338–43
Walden (Thoreau), 105, 119, 349
Walker, Alice, 357
“The Wanderer” (Williams), 143
“The War Against the Trees” (Kunitz), 206
“The War Is Permanent” (Tu Fu), 212
“War Thoughts at Home” (Frost ’s unpub-
lished poem), 134–35
Washington, D.C., 71, 73, 356
Washington State, 273, 275, 344, 347–48, 354,

355. See also Cascade Mountains; Mount
     Rainier
     The Waste Land (Eliot), 7, 44, 143–44, 146–49,
     157, 159, 177, 260, 278, 338
     “Watching the Jet Planes Dive” (Stafford),
     257, 355
     Water (Fountains; Oceans; Rain; Rivers), in
     Ammons, 296–98; Bible, 24; Bishop, 229,
     232, 235, 238; Coleridge, 42–45, 100, 101,
     127, 199, 222, 246; Eliot, 278; Frost, 116,
     126–28, 153, 222; Haines, 287–88; Hall, 318;
     Hardy, 8, 92–93; Hopkins, 97, 99–102;
     Hughes, 332–33; Jeffers, 175, 189; Una Jef-
     fers, 171; Kaufman, 277–78, 280; Keats, 47;
     Levertov, 268, 273; Lowell, 260–61, 264–
     65; Merwin, 302–3, 305–7; Millay, 185, 187–
     89; Momaday, 357; Moore, 177–82; Neruda,
     196–99, 342; Psalms, 20, 25–26; Rexroth,
     213–15; Rich, 173; Roethke, 220; and sea
     walls, 174; Shakespeare, 182; Snyder, 344,
     348, 349–50; Stafford, 253–57; Swenson,
     246, 248; Thomas, 134; Tu Fu, 211; Walcott,
     337, 338; “Western Wind,” 44, 278; Whit-
     man, 76; Williams, 143, 157–58; Words-
     worth, 37–38, 43, 49, 100, 199; Yeats, 109,


356. See also Fish; Pollution; Waterfalls;
     Whales
     Waterfalls, 14–15, 36–38, 43–45, 47–50, 55, 67,
     100–101, 128–29, 158, 183, 199, 214–15, 259,
     337, 344, 348, 353, 356
     “Waters” (Swenson), 246, 248

Watershed Prize, 355

“The Wave and the Dune” (Swenson), 246

Weather, 32, 40, 50–54, 219, 278, 330, 347

“Weeds and Peonies” (Hall), 324

Welch, James, 357

“The Wellfleet Whale” (Kunitz), 206–8, 329

“The Well Rising” (Stafford), 3, 253–57, 272

“Western Wind” (Anonymous), 3, 6, 28–33,

44, 93, 151, 214, 219, 278, 294, 360

West Indies. See Caribbean

“West-Running Brook” (Frost), 126–27, 129,

153, 222

Whales (Leviathan), 173, 175, 259, 261, 302–3;

in Bible, 1–2, 5, 25–26, 165–66, 218; envi-

ronmental threats to, 11, 20, 293, 303;

Kunitz, 5, 206–8, 329; language of, 206–7,

303; Melville, 5, 45, 80, 166, 218, 237, 260,

261, 303, 329

“What lips my lips have kissed” (Millay),

186–87

“When Lilacs Last in the Door-yard

Bloom’d” (Whitman), 73

Whitman, Walt, xiii, 7, 8, 64–74, 115, 218, 265,

329, 356, 362;on Adam, 21; and American

idiom, 4–5, 24, 68–69, 71, 129, 144, 223; “As

I Ebb’d with the Ocean of Life,” 76; and

Dickinson, 69, 76, 78, 80; influences on, 24,

34, 66, 68–69, 71, 73, 296; Leaves of Grass,

9, 64, 67–74; and other poets, 69–70, 103,

143–44, 158, 163, 167, 201, 208–9, 212, 218,

272, 310, 315, 317, 323, 336, 351, 357; “Song

of Myself,” xiii, 68–72, 103, 212, 218; Speci-

men Days in America, 73; “When Lilacs

Last in the Door-yard Bloom’d,” 73

“Whitman Is the Voice of One Who Saith”

(Pound), 72

Whittier, John Greenleaf, 68, 70

“Who Goes with Fergus?” (Yeats), 106

Wieseltier, Meir, 276

Wilbur, Richard, 14

“The Wild” (Merwin), 302

Wilderness, xiv, 6; Biblical events in, 20; and

history, 352, 353–54; in Kinnell, 309; within

people, 282–89; Puritans on, 20; as Snyder’s

constituency, 353–54. See also Civilization;

Earth; Nature

“The Wild Swans at Coole” (Yeats), 107

“The Willets” (Swenson), 245

Williams, Flossie, 141, 160, 273

Williams, William Carlos, 141–48,149–61,

364–65; Al Que Quiere, 144; In the American

Grain,151–53, 341; and American idiom,