• Macavity The Mystery Cat

Macavity The Mystery Cat

The poem Macavity – The Mystery Cat by T S Eliot Introduction This poem is best known of T.S. Eliot’s ‘Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats’. This is the only book Eliot wrote.

Poetic Devices To conclude. T.S Eliot was definitely a crazy cat lady in a past life, there's no question. Macavity: the Mystery Cat By T.S Eliot Reading of the poem T. Eliot September 26th1888-January 4th 1965. He was a poet, dramatist, literary critic and editor.

He was born in Missouri, US. He graduated from Harvard with a PhD in Philosophy. He was awarded the noble prize for literature in 1948 'for his outstanding, pioneer contribution to present-day poetry'. Origin of the poem The poem is one of fourteen from the Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. T.S Eliot wrote and published the book in 1939. It is a collection of poems about the sociology and psychology of cats. Performance of Macavity the Mystery Cat in the musical Cats: summary of stanzas imagery metaphors cacophony irony This is Napoleon Bonaparte Napoleon is famously known for his great Military success.

And failure In battle, when his army was stranded, Napoleon was known to flee back to France. Leaving the battle behind Napoleon assumed his role as leader until he was defeated in battle After defeat Napoleon often fled or resigned as leader In the poem, Macavity was referred to as 'The Napoleon of Crime' Macavity's reputation was compared to Napoleon Bonaparte Though Macavity was the primary suspect, he always managed to flee the crime scene, just like Napoleon.

In the poem T.S Eliot refers to 'Mungojerrie' and 'Griddlebone'. These two names are also part of other poems in the same book as Macavity. Evidently, Eliot wants the stories to be connected.

He speaks as if they all know each other. What do those weird words mean? Cats is a play based on the book that Macavity is in.

Some of the poetic devices used were.