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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 ...
The Poem. One of the most delightful and best-known poems in praise of a house cat, Christopher Smart’s “My Cat, Jeoffry” is actually one section of a much more complex and difficult work ...
All my words flattened, rolled, turned into felt, slowly melting. I was brave, as I walked with you, to the front door, threw it open, the world overflowing like a treasure chest. A split second and you were away, intoxicated. After you’d gone I went into your bedroom, released a song bird from its cage.
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Excavations under the carpet turned up nothing. A commandment was even broken, papers scattered everywhere. What remains to be done. Just sleep and wait. Just wait till he turns up, just let him ...
Aug 22, 2018 · Piano: listening to a woman sing brings back memories of childhood, 'Taking me back down the vista of years', as if seeing them in his mind’s eye; the memories of his mother make the speaker feel sad. the sibilance of the opening line 'Softly, in the dusk, a woman is singing to me' prompts the memories.
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By Thomas Gray. ‘Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes’ narrates a cat’s fatal chase for goldfish, offering a moral on misstep. Thomas Gray was an English poet, professor, and scholar. He is best known for his ‘ Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard,’ published in 1751. This poem, ‘ Ode on the Death of ...
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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.