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of the poem The naming of cats
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In the poem, the first name a cat possesses is an "everyday" name that any observer can use:
First of all, there's the name that the family use daily,
Such as Peter, Augustus, Alonzo or James,
Such as Victor or Jonathan, George or Bill Bailey--
All of them sensible everyday names.
While some of these everyday names might be "fancier ... some for the gentlemen, some for the dames," they are, nevertheless, "all of them sensible everyday names." This is the "self" we let everyone see - our most public self.
However, the poem's speaker says one name is not enough. Cats also need a name that is ...
... particular,
A name that's peculiar, and more dignified,
Else how can he keep up his tail perpendicular,
Or spread out his whiskers, or cherish his pride?
This is a more individual name, a name that "never belong(s) to more than one cat." It recognizes the uniqueness that is that cat. This is the self we let our friends and family see - one that reveals some of our own uniqueness - our personal traits, talents, desires, likes, and dislikes.
However, even that name does not represent the cat at its deepest essence. That name is known only by the cat:
The name that no human research can discover--
But THE CAT HIMSELF KNOWS, and will never confess.
This is the self we only let ourselves see, our truest self, with our hidden desires, fears, dreams, beliefs, doubts, and concerns.
As for style, the poem is written in anapest tetrameter, with the accent (primarily) on every THIRD syllable (as marked in bold below):
You may think at first I'm as mad as a hatter
When I tell you, a cat must have THREE DIFFERENT NAMES.
First of all, there's the name that the family use daily,
Such as Peter, Augustus, Alonzo or James ...
The poem follows an every-other-line rhyme scheme of ABABCDCDEFEF, and so on. It makes an allusion to the Mad hatter from Alice in Wonderland, and also uses a lot of personification as it talks about cats. This is especially seen in the following passage:
But I tell you, a cat needs a name that's particular,
A name that's peculiar, and more dignified,
Else how can he keep up his tail perpendicular,
Or spread out his whiskers, or cherish his pride?
Here, we see the cat from a very human perspective; it desires to be seen with dignity so it can maintain its pride.
Eliot also uses repetition and a made-up word, "effanineffable," at the end:
His mind is engaged in a rapt contemplation
Of the thought, of the thought, of the thought of his name:
His ineffable effable
Effanineffable
Deep and inscrutable singular Name.
This repetition of the phrase "of the thought" leaves the reader, as well as the cat, in "a rapt contemplation/Of the thought ... of his name" and of the multiple levels of his identity.
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In the poem, the first name a cat possesses is an "everyday" name that any observer can use:
First of all, there's the name that the family use daily,
Such as Peter, Augustus, Alonzo or James,
Such as Victor or Jonathan, George or Bill Bailey--
All of them sensible everyday names.
While some of these everyday names might be "fancier ... some for the gentlemen, some for the dames," they are, nevertheless, "all of them sensible everyday names." This is the "self" we let everyone see - our most public self.
However, the poem's speaker says one name is not enough. Cats also need a name that is ...
... particular,
A name that's peculiar, and more dignified,
Else how can he keep up his tail perpendicular,
Or spread out his whiskers, or cherish his pride?
This is a more individual name, a name that "never belong(s) to more than one cat." It recognizes the uniqueness that is that cat. This is the self we let our friends and family see - one that reveals some of our own uniqueness - our personal traits, talents, desires, likes, and dislikes.
However, even that name does not represent the cat at its deepest essence. That name is known only by the cat:
The name that no human research can discover--
But THE CAT HIMSELF KNOWS, and will never confess.
This is the self we only let ourselves see, our truest self, with our hidden desires, fears, dreams, beliefs, doubts, and concerns.
As for style, the poem is written in anapest tetrameter, with the accent (primarily) on every THIRD syllable (as marked in bold below):
You may think at first I'm as mad as a hatter
When I tell you, a cat must have THREE DIFFERENT NAMES.
First of all, there's the name that the family use daily,
Such as Peter, Augustus, Alonzo or James ...
The poem follows an every-other-line rhyme scheme of ABABCDCDEFEF, and so on. It makes an allusion to the Mad hatter from Alice in Wonderland, and also uses a lot of personification as it talks about cats. This is especially seen in the following passage:
But I tell you, a cat needs a name that's particular,
A name that's peculiar, and more dignified,
Else how can he keep up his tail perpendicular,
Or spread out his whiskers, or cherish his pride?
Here, we see the cat from a very human perspective; it desires to be seen with dignity so it can maintain its pride.
Eliot also uses repetition and a made-up word, "effanineffable," at the end:
His mind is engaged in a rapt contemplation
Of the thought, of the thought, of the thought of his name:
His ineffable effable
Effanineffable
Deep and inscrutable singular Name.
This repetition of the phrase "of the thought" leaves the reader, as well as the cat, in "a rapt contemplation/Of the thought ... of his name" and of the multiple levels of his identity.
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The poem describes people's identitys in diffrent situations in your life. When your by yourself your the real you, and when your with your friends, or at the job, you change, to the kind of person society thinks you should be ......
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