Index of Allusions

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Index of (mostly) literary authors and works alluded to. Most of the allusions are simple, but a few are obscure and may be hard to see in the poem. 33 of the 108 poems are indexed here.

Authors Alluded To

Alexander Pope Literature Trivia Alexander Pope Examines the RIP Bill Be Not the First Alfred Tennyson Loved and Lost Proposed New Air Force Motto anonymous Tunisia Revolution Jesus Dance Mad Song Arthur C. Clarke Who Can Know? Brewster Higley The Flying Dugong Buzz Aldrin Immortal Remains Charles Simic Creation Myth e.e. cummings In the Best Modern Way Emily Dickinson How You Feel When You’re Middling Good Emma Lazarus Dream: The Roads of Colossi Ezra Pound In the Best Modern Way Felicia Dorothea Hemans Mutation and Recombination Francis Scott Key The Flying Dugong George Leybourne The Flying Dugong Gerard Manley Hopkins Salutation to a Previous Generation Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Mutation and Recombination Hesiod Launch the Fireworks! Homer Literature Trivia Why Oh Why Don’t People Still Write This Way? Afflatus J.D. Salinger Tunisia Revolution Jean-Jacques Rousseau Walk Off John Donne Ask Not For Whom the Thunder Rolls Metaphysical Poets Summarized John Keats Romanticism Summarized Red-Winged Blackbirds Matsuo Bashou Haiku Haiku Matthew Arnold A Word to Matthew Arnold Mervyn Peake Who Can Know? Mother Goose Tunisia Revolution Mutation and Recombination Neil Armstrong Immortal Remains Rainer Maria Rilke New Formalists Robert Frost Literature Trivia The Poetry ABC Song Robert L. May Santa's Sleigh Ride at 1000 km/s Samuel Taylor Coleridge Mad Song Stephen Foster The Flying Dugong T.S. Eliot In the Best Modern Way Voltaire Walk Off W.B. Yeats New Formalists Immortal Remains In the Best Modern Way W.H. Auden The Poetry ABC Song William Carlos Williams Catherine William Safire The Placing of Blame William Shakespeare Literature Trivia How You Feel When You’re Middling Good The Poetry ABC Song

Titles Alluded To

2001: A Space Odyssey (Arthur C. Clarke) Who Can Know? Archaischer Torso Apollos (Rainer Maria Rilke) New Formalists The Arrow and the Song (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) Mutation and Recombination Bible Religion and Science The Boy Stood on the Burning Deck (Felicia Dorothea Hemans) Mutation and Recombination The Cat and the Moon (W.B. Yeats) Immortal Remains Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger) Tunisia Revolution The Charge of the Light Brigade (Alfred Tennyson) Proposed New Air Force Motto Chicken Little (anonymous) Tunisia Revolution An Essay on Criticism (Alexander Pope) Literature Trivia Be Not the First Gormenghast (Mervyn Peake) Who Can Know? Hamlet (William Shakespeare) Literature Trivia The Poetry ABC Song Home on the Range (Brewster Higley) The Flying Dugong I Cannot Dance upon My Toes (Emily Dickinson) How You Feel When You’re Middling Good In Memoriam (Alfred Tennyson) Loved and Lost The Last Word (Matthew Arnold) A Word to Matthew Arnold The Man on the Flying Trapeze (George Leybourne) The Flying Dugong Mary Had a Little Lamb (Mother Goose) Mutation and Recombination Meditation 17 (John Donne) Ask Not For Whom the Thunder Rolls The New Colossus (Emma Lazarus) Dream: The Roads of Colossi Nothing Gold Can Stay (Robert Frost) Literature Trivia Ode on a Grecian Urn (John Keats) Red-Winged Blackbirds Ode to a Nightingale (John Keats) Romanticism Summarized The Odyssey (Homer) Why Oh Why Don’t People Still Write This Way? Afflatus The Pied Piper of Hamelin (anonymous) Jesus Dance Poem (Charles Simic) Creation Myth Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Samuel Taylor Coleridge) Mad Song Rock-a-Bye Baby (Mother Goose) Tunisia Revolution Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (Robert L. May) Santa's Sleigh Ride at 1000 km/s The Second Coming (W.B. Yeats) New Formalists The Star Spangled Banner (Francis Scott Key) The Flying Dugong Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening (Robert Frost) The Poetry ABC Song The Sun Rising (John Donne) Metaphysical Poets Summarized The Tempest (William Shakespeare) How You Feel When You’re Middling Good Tom O’ Bedlam’s Song (anonymous) Mad Song The Wanderer (W.H. Auden) The Poetry ABC Song Willie Has Gone to the War (Stephen Foster) The Flying Dugong Works and Days (Hesiod) Launch the Fireworks!