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Apr 1, 2019 · The resources include a General Teachers’ Notes file detailing suggested approaches for using the resource and for comparing, reading and responding to poems. Each poem is presented as a digital file (either fully interactive or as a PowerPoint file), containing activities which may be used to explore the poems’ style, language, structure, form and content.
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Jan 12, 2016 · Janet was the daughter of the poet John Addington Symonds (1840-93). 9. Charles Baudelaire, ‘ Cats ‘. Like the Pangur Bán poem, Baudelaire’s ‘Cats’ brings scholars and cats together. The description of ‘giant sphinxes stretched in depths of solitude’ is a nice description of our aloof feline companions. 10.
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‘The Naming of Cats’ features a rhyme scheme that varies throughout the poem. Initially, it follows an ‘ABAB’ pattern, then shifts to ‘ABBA’ at the end, with the last four lines. The rhyme scheme gives the poem a whimsical and rhythmic quality, mirroring the playful and intricate nature of naming cats. As for the meter, it is primarily anapestic te...
‘The Naming of Cats’ is presented in one big text portion and can be read in full here. Although the partition in stanzas can be made following the rhyme scheme, the poem is not printed with those spaces. Therefore, the poem will be analyzed as a whole, but those further partitions can be made. ‘The Naming of Cats’explores the way in which cats acq...
Thomas Stearns Eliot was born in 1888 and died in 1965. He was a British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic. Although born in the United States of America, he became a British citizen in 1927. T. S. Eliot moved to England in 1914 at the age of 25 and stayed there until his death. He is known as one of the most important poe...
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Aug 7, 2020 · Neil Curry, in his book [Christopher Smart] (By: Neil Curry) [published: June, 2004], describes Jeoffry as the ‘most famous cat in the whole history of English literature’, and the 74-line excerpt from Jubilate Agno may well be the greatest cat poem in the language. The poem is religious: Jeoffry, like Smart (who was confined partly because ...
Cat in an Empty Apartment is an appropriate introduction to Szymborksa’s ever-fluid poetic style. Her gentle way of going against the grain, turning the easy expectation on its head, playing up the limitations of consciousness, acknowledging the jurisdiction of disappointment and loneliness and loss in any human life—it's these things which ...
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Feb 24, 2015 · At every station, the cat gets off the train and refreshes himself. In the morning, when you reach your station, you can see Skimble in front of you, bidding goodbye to you. He gives you a wave of his long brown tail and tells you, “ I’ll see you again!”. This is the substance of the poem. In other words, the poet describes the importance ...
