My Featured Poem

The Rum Tum Tugger

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 Poem

Rum Tum Tugger is one of the many feline characters in the poetry book Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot, published in 1939, and in the musical Cats, which premiered in 1981 and is based on Eliot's book.

Works Cited （参考文献）

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rum_Tum_Tugger

II. About the Author

Thomas Stearns Eliot was born in St.Louis Missouri , United States of America.

He is British poet, playwright, literacy critic.

He is won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1948.

Works Cited （参考文献）

https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%E3%83%BBS%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A8%E3%83%AA%E3%82%AA%E3%83%83%E3%83%88

IV. My Reaction

A. Reaction Point- rhyme (韻）

 Continued to the sound of the audible part.
 This poem uses "out" "about", "door" "drawer", "habit" "rabbit" and so on.

B. theme(物語の主旨、主題、テーマ）

 The writing Center.Short Melodic music in the Central.

 Rum Tum Tugger theme is Delinquency cat.

C. symbolism(象徴性、象徴的表現）

 To represent an abstract help.

D. My General Opinion

　I thought "Rum Tum Tugger" is selfish cat ,but there is also a pretty side.
Becouse he is rebellious amd he is look like a child. This poem is very interesting!!
Please read everyone.