My Featured Novel

The Rum Tum Tugger by T. S. Eliot

The Rum Tum Tugger is a Curious Cat:
If you offer him pheasant he would rather have grouse.
If you put him in a house he would much prefer a flat,
If you put him in a flat then he'd rather have a house.
If you set him on a mouse then he only wants a rat,
If you set him on a rat then he'd rather chase a mouse.
Yes the Rum Tum Tugger is a Curious Cat--
   And there isn't any call for me to shout it:
          For he will do
    As he do do
       And there's no doing anything about it!

The Rum Tum Tugger is a terrible bore:
When you let him in, then he wants to be out;
He's always on the wrong side of every door,
And as soon as he's at home, then he'd like to get about.
He likes to lie in the bureau drawer,
But he makes such a fuss if he can't get out.

Yes the Rum Tum Tugger is a Curious Cat--
   And there isn't any use for you to doubt it:
          For he will do
    As he do do
       And there's no doing anything about it!

The Rum Tum Tugger is a curious beast:
His disobliging ways are a matter of habit.
If you offer him fish then he always wants a feast;
When there isn't any fish then he won't eat rabbit.
If you offer him cream then he sniffs and sneers,
For he only likes what he finds for himself;

So you'll catch him in it right up to the ears,
If you put it away on the larder shelf.
The Rum Tum Tugger is artful and knowing,
The Rum Tum Tugger doesn't care for a cuddle;
But he'll leap on your lap in the middle of your sewing,
For there's nothing he enjoys like a horrible muddle.
Yes the Rum Tum Tugger is a Curious Cat--
   And there isn't any need for me to spout it:
          For he will do
    As he do do
       And there’s no doing anything about it!

  

     I. About the Novel

Rum Tum Tugger is one of the many feline characters in the portry book oid possum's book of practical cats by T.S Eliot,published in 1939, and in the musical Cats which was based on Eliot`s book.eliot draws attention to the similarities between feline and human personality traits.Rum tum Tugger is porteayed as the rebel cat who cannot heip but be difficult.he is never satisfied with what you give him

Works Cited （参考文献）

http://ja.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rum_Tum_Tugger

II. About the Writer

S. Eliot, was an American-born British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic and "one of the twentieth century's major poets".He moved to England in 1914 at age 25, settling, working and marrying there. He was eventually naturalisedas a British subject in 1927 at age 39, renouncing his American citizenship.
Eliot attracted widespread attention for his poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" (1915), which is seen as a masterpiece of the Modernist movement. It was followed by some of the best-known poems in the English language, including The Waste Land (1922), "The Hollow Men " (1925), "Ash Wednesday" (1930) and Four Quartets (1945). He is also known for his seven plays, particularly Murder in the Cathedral (1935). He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948, "for his outstanding, pioneer contribution to present-day poetry

Works Cited （参考文献）

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._S._Eliot

III. My Reaction

A. Reaction Point - character（登場人物）
  ・Character is a fictional personality created by an author.
  ・「The Rum Tum Tugger」
  ・The Rum Tum Tugger is a cat. A cat who lives an unconventional and carefree life.
 　　
B. Reaction Point - structure（詩の組織のパターン）

   ・Structure is the pattern of organization of a poem.
   ・The Rum Tum Tugger is a Curious Cat:
  If you offer him pheasant he would rather have grouse.
  If you put him in a house he would much prefer a flat,
  If you put him in a flat then he'd rather have a house.
  If you set him on a mouse then he only wants a rat,
  If you set him on a rat then he'd rather chase a mouse.
  Yes the Rum Tum Tugger is a Curious Cat--
   And there isn't any call for me to shout it:
          For he will do
    As he do do
       And there's no doing anything about it!

  ・The poem is every time beginning from 「The Rum Tum Tugger」 「And  there’s no doing anything about it!」　ended.

C. Reaction Point - rhyme（韻 、 言葉の端部で音の繰り返し）

• Rhyme is the repetition of sounds at the ends of words.
• For he will do as he do do
• It was played by repeating the sound.

D. My General Opinion
   The word curious had various meanings, and there was interesting because I        changed  by a sentence.The cat is an eccentric by read this poem.
Well, becauseI want to do reverse.