Poetry Tuesday!: "The Naming of Cats" by T.S. Eliot

Here's "The Naming of Cats" (1939) by T.S. Eliot (1888-1965).

For the rest of my playlist, click here. Past poems are:

1. "Ulysses" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
2. "The Pulley" by George Herbert
3. "Harmonie du soir" by Charles Baudelaire
4. "Dirge Without Music" by Edna St. Vincent Millay
5. "Clancy of the Overflow" by A.B. "Banjo" Paterson
6. "Лотова жена" ("Lotova zhena", "Lot's wife") by Anna Akhmatova
7. "The Jumblies" by Edward Lear
8. "The Conqueror Worm" by Edgar Allan Poe
9. "Les Djinns" by Victor Hugo
10. "I Have a Rendezvous with Death" by Alan Seeger
11. "When I Was One-and-Twenty" by A.E. Housman
12. "Узник" ("Uznik", "The Prisoner" or "The Captive") by Aleksandr Pushkin
13. "God's Grandeur" by Gerard Manley Hopkins
14. "The Song of Wandering Aengus" by William Butler Yeats
15. "Je crains pas ça tellment" by Raymond Queneau

Comments

[Dilan Esper]

Part of "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats", which was the source material for Andrew Lloyd Weber's famous Broadway musical, "Cats".

[Roman Moroni]

Is the long pause (paws) at the end you meditating on your secret name?

[Shamie Ervin iv]

Wonderful. And thanks. I'll have to go look up cat-lover Mark Twain's comments about cats which I have in a volume containing _Letters from the Earth._

Catullus? Catastrophe? Cataclysm?