Walden by Haiku

Index

[235] Index agricultural revolution, 138 aisatsu, 38 Aitken, Robert, 227n2 Allen, Woody, 138 alliteration, xxii, 60, 99, 119 “American Haiku Movement, The” (Trumbull), 227n2 animalizing, 128. See also personification anthropocentrism, 102, 135, 140, 150, 169. See also ecocentrism anthropomorphism, 190, 200, 204 Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (asle), xxiii assonance, xxii, 60, 99 “Autumnal Tints” (Thoreau), xx aware, xv, xxiv, 26, 69, 200 Barnhill, David, xvii, 38, 122 base section, 46, 50 Bashō, xiii–xiv, xix, xxiv, 14, 15; aesthetic principles of, 127, 181; as haikai poet, xxv–xxvi; definition of haiku by, 82; Knapsack Notebook, 100; The Narrow Road to the Deep North, xviii, 100, 133, 214; “old pond” haiku, xiii–xiv, 135, 153, 155, 181, 198; as writer of renga, 39 Bashō’s Haiku (Barnhill), xvii “Bear, The” (Faulkner), 93 beginner’s mind, 11, 133, 194, 225 Bishop, Elizabeth, 93 “Blues in the Green” (Cohen), 94 Blyth, R. H., xxiv, 13, 15; attributes of haiku described by, xxiv; his assumption of haiku’s Zen dimension , 13, 34, 103, 216, 227–28n2; his recommendation for haiku form in English, 141 —specific haiku attributes discussed: contradictoriness, 65; courage, 103, 216; freedom, 30; grateful acceptance , 56; materiality, 46, 56; non-intellectuality, 21, 34; nonmorality , 53 Bohm, David, 91–92, 228n5 Buell, Lawrence, 75 Buson, xix, 15 “Catskills Dialogue, A” (Marshall and Taylor), 37 Channing, William Ellery, xx, 167 Cohen, Michael, 94 Coming Home to the Pleistocene (Shepard), 138 Concord, Mass., 120, 139, 169, 188 Confucius, 145 content links, 39–40 coolness, 199 Cummings, E. E., 228n3 dendrology, 183 Derrida, Jacques, 111 Dharma Bums, The (Kerouac), 94 discordia concors, 188 Douglas, William O., 200 ecocentrism, 75, 94, 137–38, 150, 180 ecocriticism, xxiii–xxv, xxviii, 94, 227n1 ecology, 40–41, 64 ecotone, 115 egolessness, xiv, 6, 143 Eliot, T. S., 121 Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 64, 76, 89; “Experience,” xxi; “Nature,” 47, 56, 120, 218 “Experience” (Emerson), xxi [236] Faulkner, William, 93 Fish, Stanley, xxix “Fish, The” (Bishop), 93 Foster, Thomas, 223 found haiku, xxviii–xxix, 75, 95 Frogpond, xxvi Frost, Robert, 181 fueki ryōko, 181 ga, 46–47, 224 Gandhi, Mahatma, 144 Gilbert, Richard, 228n4 “Giving Up on Language” (Taylor), 37 grateful acceptance, 56; of carnivores , 165; of the conditions of life, 106, 115; of disturbing natural facts, 193; of moles, 177; of the railroad, 119; of social status, 221; of whatever the earth gives, 135, 138; wherever you are, 159; of wildness , 212; of the world, 124. See also Blyth, R. H. Gurga, Lee, xxi, 6–7, 50, 69, 227n2 Haeckel, Ernst, 41 haibun, xviii, 14, 94, 100, 148 haijin, xxvi Haiku (Blyth), xxiv, 13 haiku aesthetics: applied to nonhaiku poets, 228n3; coolness, 199; formal qualities of, 38; introduced, xvii; Kawamoto’s discussion of, 46, 50; pertinence to ecocriticism and nature writing, xxiii–xxvii, 94; pertinence to Thoreau and Walden, xvi–xviii, xxiii–xxvii, 10–11, 14–15, 99–101, 201; as poetics of the ordinary, 105; and Zen thought 227–28n2. See also Blyth, R. H.; Japanese literary aesthetics, conventions of; Japanese literary devices; Kawamoto; language registers ; waka —concepts of: beginner’s mind (ability to see things innocently and directly, simplification), 11, 133, 194, 225; egolessness, xiv, 6, 143; yōgen (depth of meaning and resonance in a haiku), xx, 47, 69, 73, 89, 95; yōgen in particular haiku, 149, 206, 223 haiku index, 94 “Haiku in English in North America ” (Swede), 227n2 Haiku Moment (Ross), 227n2 Haiku Pond (Tripi), 16 “Haiku Sensibilities of E. E. Cummings , The” (Welch), 228n3 Hamill, Sam, 26 Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 64 Henderson, Harold, 222 hierarchy of needs (Maslow), 132, 183 History of Haiku (Blyth), xxiv hokku, xxv, 38 honkadori, 16 hosomi, xxiv, 5–7, 89, 109 Hound, Bay Horse, and Turtle-dove (Otterberg), 104, 218 How to Read Literature Like a Professor (Foster), 223 hydrologic cycle, 148, 207 hyperbole, 50, 130, 211 hyper-metricality, 141, 190 intentional fallacy, xxvii Introduction to Haiku, An (Henderson ), 222 Issa, xix, 15, 208; insects as his subject , 109, 134, 169; The Spring of My Life, 100 Japanese literary aesthetics, conventions of, xxiv; aware, xv, xxiv, 26, 69, 200; hosomi, xxiv, 5–7, 89, 109; karumi, xv, xxiv, 35, 68–69, 89, 99, 109, 127, 196; sabi (defined), xvii, xxiv, 26, 127, 211; sabi in particular [237] haiku, 69, 121, 123, 186, 200, 201, 203; shibumi, xxiv, 7, 89, 99; wabi, xv, xxiv, 95, 109, 130–31, 167, 175, 195, 225; wabi and...