Keywords

Term ID Vocabulary Parentsort descending Term Description
1491 Themes and Motifs Objects Watermelon
669 Themes and Motifs Objects Wedding license
2843 Themes and Motifs Objects Wedding ring
1062 Themes and Motifs Objects Well
2470 Themes and Motifs Objects Wheel
5540 Themes and Motifs Objects Wheel chair
4150 Themes and Motifs Objects Willow tree
2021 Themes and Motifs Objects Windows
1887 Themes and Motifs Objects Wisteria
1824 Themes and Motifs Objects Wreath
3629 Environment Olfactory Acrid
2772 Environment Olfactory Alcohol
3958 Environment Olfactory Ammonia
3959 Environment Olfactory Animal / stable
2135 Environment Olfactory Bad smell
3921 Environment Olfactory Baking / bread
3397 Environment Olfactory Benzene
2558 Environment Olfactory Bordello
4396 Environment Olfactory Camp-fire smoke
3681 Environment Olfactory Camphor
2487 Environment Olfactory Cigar
5648 Environment Olfactory Coffee
607 Environment Olfactory Decay
5306 Environment Olfactory Decomposition
3375 Environment Olfactory Ether
1329 Environment Olfactory Evoking memory
3377 Environment Olfactory Excrement
5612 Environment Olfactory Fire
1102 Environment Olfactory Flowers
489 Environment Olfactory Food
2063 Environment Olfactory Gasoline
4862 Environment Olfactory Gunpowder
3988 Environment Olfactory Hog / pig pen
5647 Environment Olfactory Honeysuckle
4429 Environment Olfactory House
3816 Environment Olfactory Kerosene lantern
2485 Environment Olfactory Locust
5269 Environment Olfactory Milk
2858 Environment Olfactory Must
2201 Environment Olfactory Old woman smell

For when Faulkner texts make explicit reference to the smell of elderly (old) women - "faint odor of old maidens" in "Go Down, Moses," the "rank smell of female old flesh" in "Absalom," etc. (Question: Does Faulkner ever reference the smell of old MEN?) JBP

3682 Environment Olfactory Oversweet organic

Honeysuckle, but also the blooms from the "heaven tree" in Sanctuary, etc.

2932 Environment Olfactory Perfume smell
3211 Environment Olfactory Pipe smoke
2481 Environment Olfactory Rain
3956 Environment Olfactory Sexual smells
3398 Environment Olfactory Shaving lotion
4450 Environment Olfactory Smelling black
2240 Environment Olfactory Smelling death
2930 Environment Olfactory Smelling trees
3575 Environment Olfactory Smelling water
4540 Environment Olfactory Smoke
3399 Environment Olfactory Starch
3507 Environment Olfactory Sulfur
2817 Environment Olfactory Sweat
3396 Environment Olfactory Tobacco
2253 Environment Olfactory Trees
2770 Environment Olfactory Urine
2996 Environment Olfactory Weed
4726 Environment Otherworldly Beyond living world passim
3879 Environment Otherworldly Earth / the world
3849 Environment Otherworldly Hellfire
3946 Environment Otherworldly Moon / Lunar
3193 Themes and Motifs Past And monuments
3455 Themes and Motifs Past Anxiety about|Resistance to change
3059 Themes and Motifs Past As explanatory
3174 Themes and Motifs Past Discovering it
2857 Themes and Motifs Past Family history
3093 Themes and Motifs Past Freedom from it
1555 Themes and Motifs Past Grander than present
4894 Themes and Motifs Past Historical wrong
2353 Themes and Motifs Past Innocence
1627 Themes and Motifs Past Old days
1303 Themes and Motifs Past Parental
1322 Themes and Motifs Past Past in present
4206 Themes and Motifs Past Past vs present
3560 Themes and Motifs Past Personal past
3008 Themes and Motifs Past Prehistory
4671 Themes and Motifs Past Quest to recover
1814 Themes and Motifs Past Recent past

For events acknowledging recent occurrences that may or may not affect the present. (Added for end of "Lion," with Boon oblivious to events in the recent past while the narrator is thinking about them.)

2862 Themes and Motifs Past Relics
3013 Themes and Motifs Past Repetition
4284 Themes and Motifs Past Traumatic
2418 Themes and Motifs Past Yoknapatawpha founders
1572 Actions Perceptual Ambiguity
4078 Actions Perceptual Blurring
5102 Actions Perceptual Dowsing
1944 Actions Perceptual Eavesdropping
3835 Actions Perceptual Experiencing second-hand / vicariously
3901 Actions Perceptual Familiarity
4200 Actions Perceptual Hearing
4827 Actions Perceptual Interpreting tracks
1299 Actions Perceptual Investigating
697 Actions Perceptual Listening
689 Actions Perceptual Looking
3497 Actions Perceptual Looking away
3955 Actions Perceptual Looking back
1563 Actions Perceptual Misreading
4160 Actions Perceptual Moment of vision

For moments when a character sees something charged with a sense of wonder or awe - created for the boy seeing the buck in "Race at Morning," but also appropriate for Sarty seeing De Spain's mansion or Ike seeing the bear. SR

1363 Actions Perceptual Nosiness
4191 Actions Perceptual Observing

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