This is an index of themes addressed within the various posts. I am only going to track themes that are relatively specific; broader themes occur too often. For the sake of space, I give only the first two words in the poems' names. To note, while this list works with the tags on the individual posts, it is not an exact duplication.)
- abstraction/concreteness: "Dominion Over"; "Necessity Defense"; "Other One"; Review: Poetry iii
- academic thought: The Intellect
- accidental meter: "Beneath There"
- the aesthetic: "Bloodletting"; "Evil Key"; "Joy That"; "Mariana"; "Patterns" & "Garden"; "A Poem Should"; Re-examining; Stephen Fry; "Two Thoughts"; "Yellow Goblins"; "the Cambridge ladies"
- aesthetic discourse: "In Vitebsk"
- aesthetic effect: "Jesus on a Train "
- aesthetic engagement: "In Vitebsk"
- ambition: "Poetry Slam"
- appreciation: "Slight Pause"
- AWP: "Note"
- ballad meter: "Four Plus"
- the "basics": "Rain of Statues"
- bathos: "Horses Are"
- bombs: "Horses Are"; "Risk Management"
- calculation: Three Poems (Carson)
- the canon: "Academe Quits Me"
- center formatting: "Carravaggio Room"
- chorus/verse: Three Poems (Smith)
- close reading: "Bible Study"; "A Fold"; "Epic"; "Geckos In"; "How to Make"; "Little Georgia"; "My God"; "Sam Coleridge"; "Space Junk"; "Moon"; The Willow Grove; "the Cambridge ladies"
- clothesline verse: Review: Poetry iii
- composition: "Moon"
- concreteness: see abstraction and concreteness
- confidence in literature: The Grass; My Life
- context: "Bad Sheep"; "Ecstasy"; "Elegy"
- contractions, poetic: "Tablet"
- content: "Brief Study"; "Lost Civilizations"
- control: "Bethany Man"; "Other One"
- convention in verse (see also "pop poetry"): "All You"; "Bloodletting"; "Demonstrated Melancholy"; "Disillusionment" and "Aunt"; "Mimesis"; "Poetry Slam"; Review: Poetry iii; Review: Poetry iv; "Rocket"; "Sleeping Women"; "Slight Pause"; Stephen Fry; "Two Thoughts"; "Yellow Goblins"
- critique: "A Fold";
- culture of poetry writing: "Going Back"; Review: Poetry i
- cut up technique: My Life
- dead puppy poems: "Butterfly With"; "Patterns" & "Garden"
- deep reading (see also close reading):
- defenses of texts: Review: Poetry v
- depth/resonance: "Bloodletting"; A Burial; "Five White"; "Journey"; "Necessity Defense"; "Northwest Passage"; "Poetry Slam"; "Spook House"
- description: "Lo Mein"
- development within a poem: "Risk Management"
- diaretics: "Canticle of"
- difference and repetition: "[but the rain"; "Solitude"; "To a Young"
- difficult poetry: "How to Make"; The Sea
- discourse, literary: Review: Poetry ix
- dreams: "Three Poems" (Arvio)
- editing/editors: "Ars Poetica"; "Beneath There"; "Butterfly With"; "Epic"; "A Moment"; "Phlogiston Footage"; "When the Men"; "Word All"
- ekphrastic poetry: "In Vitebsk"; "Modignlian's Cellist"
- energy: "Augenblick"; A Burial; "[but the rain"; "Solitude"
- engagement (see aesthetic engagement)
- enjambment: "Journey"
- the erotic: "the mind"; "Orgy"
- experimentation/experimental poetry: "A Fold"; Three Poems (Carson)
- expressing yourself in poetry: "Canticle of"
- factuality: Review: Poetry viii
- first lines: "When the Men"
- focalization: "One Little"
- forcing the reading: "Slight Pause"
- form (see formal verse, poetic form)
- formal verse (see also poetic form): Review: Poetry vi
- fragmentation/fragmenting the text: My Life; Review: Poetry vi; Review: Poetry viii
- free verse: "Ars Poetica"
- gameplay in poetry: "Bad Sheep"
- gatekeeping: Review: Poetry ix
- genre in poetry: "All You"; "Confession"/"When Fruit"
- grammar/syntax: "30 More"; "A Way"; "Ars Poetica"; "Bethany Man"; "The Bladder"; "Epic"; "Going Back"; "Lo Mein"; "The Mind After"; "Other One"; "Our Lady"; "Pelicans in December"; "Rain of Statues"; "Rocket"; Stephen Fry; "Ticket That"
- hackneyed phrases (see trite phrases)
- horror: "Mariana"
- ideation: "All You"; A Burial; "Cold Tea"; "Disillusionment" and "Aunt"; "Epic"; "Here Be"; "The Mind After"; "Modignlian's Cellist"; "My Brother's"; "My God"; "Other One"; "Pelicans in December"; "Spook House"; "We Come"; "Yellow Goblins"; The Willow Grove
- impromptu: "Q"; "Women Looking"
- inherent grammar (see also grammar): "Our Lady"
- the info dump: "For the Next"
- intellectualism: The Intellect
- knowledge: "Waste Land"
- L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E: My Life
- language, poetic: "Bad Sheep";
- line(s) (poetic, crafting, purposed): "Confession" / "When Fruit"; "Congential"; "Four Plus"; "Journey"; Review: Poetry ii; "Rocket"; "Ticket That"; "Two Thoughts"
- line breaks: "Bible Study"; "Butterfly With"; "Demonstrated Melancholy"; "Eviction Notice"; "Hollow Men"; "Housebound"; "The Letters"; "A Moment"; "Narrow Flame"; "Nostalgia™"; Review: Poetry ii; Review: Poetry iii; Review: Poetry v; "The Ruin"; Tamburlaine; "Two Poems" (Simic) and "Ealuscerwen"; "Ticket That"; "Two Thoughts"; "Women Looking"
- line endings (see masculine and feminine Lines, rhyme)
- line gaps: "Sister as Moving"
- line length: "Glass of Water"
- line period: "Hollow Men"; Tamburlaine
- lists and list verse: "All You"; "A Moment"; Review: Poetry v
- literary canon (see the canon)
- little pretties: "Bloodletting"
- masculine and feminine lines: "[but the rain"
- the "mayonnaise jar" trope: "Lo Mein"
- meaning: "In Vitebsk"; "Joy That"
- merit: "Song"; "When the Men"
- metaphor/metaphoricity: "Elk Skeleton"; Review: Poetry vi; "Year of"
- meter (see also prosody): "Beneath There"; "Circus Animals'"; Two Poems (Maxwell); "Weight Gain"
- MFA culture "Poetry Slam"
- microcosmos, poem as: "The Bladder"
- mimesis: "Mimesis"
- mise en scéne: "the mind"
- modernism: "A Poem Should"
- narration/narrative poetry: "The Letters"; "Lo Mein"; "Northwest Passage"; "Salt Water"; "Three Poems" (Arvio)
- narrative I: "Elk Skeleton"; "For the Next"; "Sister as Moving"; "We Come"
- New Formalism: "Mariana"
- the nomic: "A Poem Should"; "Two Thoughts"; "Yellow Goblins"
- non-sequiturs "Moon"
- objectivism: "Dominion Over"
- the organic theory of invention (see also unity/organicism): "Notes on I"; Notes on II
- ornament: "Drinking to do"
- parallelism: "Ode/Artichoke"
- parataxis: Review: Poetry vii
- "perfection in miniature": "Ecstasy"; "Women Looking"
- phrasing: "Four Plus"
- poetic ear: "Nostalgia™"; "Poetry that"; "Women Looking"
- poetic form (see also formal verse, structure): "Cold Tea"; Review: Poetry iv; "Sleeping Women"; "Two Poems" (Simic) and "Ealuscerwen"; "Wander"; "We Come"
- poetic games (see gameplay in poetry)
- poetic laziness: "Going Back"; The Willow Grove
- poetic line: "Glass of Water"; "Hollow Men"; "Ode/Artichoke"; Tamburlaine; "Weight Gain"; Life in the Cereal Aisle
- poetic phrasing: The WIllow Grove
- poetic structure (see structure)
- poetic vs. prosaic: "Cold Tea"; "Bible Study"; A Burial; "Disillusionment" and "Aunt"; "Hymn to"; "My Brother's"; "the mind"; "On Poetry"; "Orgy"; "Patterns" & "Garden"; Re-examining; "Eliot's Dark Embryo"
- poetic voice: "Poetry Slam"
- poetry culture (see culture of poetry writing)
- poetry journals: "Epic"
- Poetry Magazine: "Epic"; Review: Poetry i; Review: Poetry ii; Review: Poetry iii; Review: Poetry iv; Review: Poetry v; Review: Poetry vi; Review: Poetry vii; Review: Poetry viii; Review: Poetry ix
- poetry vs. diary (see diaretics)
- poetry vs. prose: "Ms. and Super"; "Phlogiston Footage"
- pop poetry: "All You"; "Bloodletting"; "Confession"/"When Fruit"; "Demonstrated Melancholy"; "Epic"; "Epic" (part 2); "Mimesis"; "The Mind After"; "Poetry Slam"; "#Poppetry"; Review: Poetry i; Review: Poetry iii; Review: Poetry ix; "Sleeping Women"
- primitive art: "A Poem Should"
- prose in poetry: "Hymn to"; Re-examining
- prose poem: "Ms. and Super"
- prosody (see also meter): "[but the rain"; "Four Plus"; "Glass of Water"; "Housebound"; "Nostalgia™"; "One Little"; Two Poems (Maxwell); "Weight Gain"
- punctuation (see grammar/syntax)
- punch line poems: "Geckos In"; "Joy That"; "My God"
- quippy profundity: "Two Thoughts"
- realism: Review: Poetry vii
- reportage (see also narrative): "Lo Mein"
- re-reading: "Road in"
- resonance (see depth)
- rhetoric: "Northwest Passage"
- rhyme: "Beneath There"; Review: Poetry vi
- rhythm (see prosody)
- scansion: "Rapprochement"
- schools of poetry: "Dominion Over"
- semantics: "A Moment"; "Other One"; "We Come"
- short poems: "Ecstasy"
- show don't tell: "Learning to Live"; "Q"
- simile: Review: Poetry vi; "Year of"
- social criticism: "Academe Quits Me"
- sophistication: "Ars Poetica"; "Brief Study"; "Confession"/"When Fruit"; "Evil Key"; "Little Georgia"; "Nimium Minus"; "Nostalgia&trade"; "Waste Land"
- sound: "Nostalgia™"
- stanzas and stanza breaks: "Demonstrated Melancholy"; Review: Poetry ii; Review: Poetry v; Review: Poetry vi; "Rocket"; "Two Poems" (Simic) and "Ealuscerwen"
- strength/weakness in literature: My Life
- structure: "Congential"; "Going Back"; "Lost Civilizations"; "Mariana"; "Metzengerstein"; "A Moment"; "Orgy"; "Pelicans in December"; "Spook House"; "Rocket"; Sonnet 128; "Two Poems" (Simic) and "Ealuscerwen"; "What Befalls"
- style: Strunk and White
- suddenly: "Five White"
- superfluous words: "Elegy"
- Surrealism: "Risk Management"
- symbolism: "Patterns" & "Garden"
- syntax (see grammar/syntax)
- teaching literature: "Road in"
- technique: "Three Poems" (Arvio)
- titles: "Joy That"; "Necessity Defense"
- typography: "Demonstrated Melancholy"; "Gymnopédia No.3"
- trite phrases: "All You"; "Ecstasy"
- unity/organicism (see also organic theory of invention): "Augenblick"; "Bad Sheep"; "Brief Study"; "Congential"; "Here Be"; "Learning to Live"; "My God"; "Necessity Defense"; "Risk Management"; "Road in"; "Sleeping Women"; Sonnet 128; "Spook House"; Stephen Fry; "Three Poems" (Arvio); "Two Poems" (Simic) and "Ealuscerwen"; "We Come"; "What Befalls"; "Jesus on a Train "
- usage (see word usage)
- validity: "In Vitebsk"
- verse line (see poetic line)
- verisimilitude: "Lo Mein"
- verse/verseform/verse vs. prose: "Bible Study"; "Hymn to"; "Mariana"; Re-examining; Review: Poetry i; Tamburlaine; "A Way"
- voice (see poetic voice)
- wording/word usage: "A Way"; "Elk Skeleton"; "For the Next"; "Here Be"; "Our Lady"; "Space Junk"
- write what you know: "For the Next"
- writing about yourself (see expressing yourself in poetry)
- writing habits: "Canticle of"
- writing lines: "Here Be"
- writing poetry vs. writing verse: "Eliot's Dark Embryo"
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