Poetry > T.S. Eliot Poetry

HERE KITTY KITTY!

Advantages: The book that the musical 'Cats' was based upon.
Disadvantages: None.

...with illustrations by Nicolas Bentley. Old Possums 'Book Of Practical Cats' is one of my favourite books of T.S.Eliot and it is this book and its cat characters that the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical 'Cats' was based upon. Cats have characters all of their own and they are each unique and individual. My two cats are brother and sister and they are entirely different in character. I have a blue cat which is the male and he is massive, a huge Tomcat, ...
...ever meet. Whereas his sister, who is a tortoiseshell, is dainty and like a princess and she demands special treatment at every turn, much to the dismay of my BlueBoy. They are both entirely different characters, but from the same litter; Much like children, cats need names to suit the type of personality and look that they possess. To call the amazing, beautiful, mysterious, magical, secretive and naughty housecat 'Kitty', is demeaning the many ...

Morning_Becomes_Electra 18.05.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats - T.S. Eliot

Eliot is a master of peotry

Advantages: Excellent to study, brilliant to read
Disadvantages: Snobbery, too many allusions?

...perplexing and charming. The Waste Land is a bit of a mammoth of a poem, but takes you on a journey through despondency, hope and suffering, and is a must-read, taking up the Holy Grail Legend in a new light. His characters throughout are often depressed souls, whose lives have little purpose, and he tries to show you how spirituality can be your salvation from average, routine, mundane life. At times, however, Eliot loses us with his allusions to ...

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Review of The Waste Land and Other Poems - T.S. Eliot

Good to explore

Advantages: It is a very interesting look at the bleakness of 20th century life.
Disadvantages: It often uses allusion which may be overlooked by less well read individuals.

T S Eliot was one of the poems I was required to study as part of my A Level course. Initially I met this with typical distain as many students undoubtedly would when faced with poetry. However, upon studying our first poem, which was Prufrock, I saw that this was the work of a poet which I could really relate to. Here was not some work of a distant artist, whose life would have revolved around very different parameters but instead it described the ...

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Review of Collected Poems 1909-1962 - T.S. Eliot

Great Introdcution to Poetry

Advantages: Nice poems, bright and colourful
Disadvantages: Not as engaging as other childrens books

...really heard before. The cover of the book is bright blue and has the title in nice bubble letters which are all a different colour across the front and lots of different pictures all around this. The back cover is also bright blue and again has lots of pictures covering it showing a variety of different things. Upon opening the book the first page has a lovely little space where your child can write their own name so people will know that the book ...
...of the book and the names of all the poems included. The book is split into 2 different sections the first being, HapolooKangaroo and the second, Higglety, Pigglety, Pop. Both of the sections have 20 poems in. I am not going to individually list all of the poems included in this book as it would make for a massive list but to name just a few we have, Hen’s Song Tiger Hey Diddle Diddle The Kettle Clocks and Watches A Boy Went Walking From the ...

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Review of The Puffin Book of Fantastic First Poems - June Crebbin

A load of rubbish? nope, pure nonsense!

Advantages: Funny, classics, a way to get kids into poetry, clever...
Disadvantages: None

...years. He is described on the back of my book as 'the inventor of the limerick'. Lear was born in 1812, and throughout his childhood he suffered from epilepsy and depression. He was brought up and educated by two of his sisters, in this education they read him a lot of poetry and taught him to draw, two subjects which I feel the world owes them for A Book of Nonsense was published in 1846, using the pseudonym Derry Down Derry. This wasn't the only ...
...one. Only 6 years later the second edition of the book was published. The Owl and the Pussy Cat, which I'm pretty convinced is the best known of his Nonsense Songs was also the first, written in 1867, and the book Nonsense Songs followed in 1870. Lear died in 1888 at the age of 75. This is a very condensed history, but this is because I am only reviewing he Book of Nonsense and Nonsense Songs. I've researched the claim that Lear was the inventor ...

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Review of The Book of Nonsense And Nonsense Songs - Edward Lear