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The only person who seems to understand that Socks is lonely and is simply curious about Charles William is the kind Mrs. Risley, who comes to babysit and lavishes Socks with attention. Socks has several misadventures in the course of the book, the most frightening being a fight with another, more aggressive, neighborhood stray cat named Old ...
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The character, Mattie Silver, from Ethan Frome (1911), has few life skills but can recite "Curfew shall not ring to-night." [10] Three silent films were made based on the poem. For two of the films, the title was modified to Curfew Shall Not Ring Tonight. No sound version has been made, but later 20th century films referred to this poem.
[2] The book had a magical effect on many people who read it, opening their eyes from "dull" poetry to a world of accessible language and the evocative use of everyday symbolism. Leading anthologist, Neil Astley , describes how he had been reading the classic poets at school in the 1960s, and one day his teacher read from The Mersey Sound ...
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1939) is a collection of whimsical light poems by T. S. Eliot about feline psychology and sociology, published by Faber and Faber. It serves as the basis for Andrew Lloyd Webber 's 1981 musical Cats .
The text of the poem reflects the thoughts of a lone wagon driver (the narrator), on the night of the winter solstice, "the darkest evening of the year", pausing at dusk in his travel to watch snow falling in the woods. It ends with him reminding himself that, despite the loveliness of the view, "I have promises to keep, / And miles to go ...
The poem explored a doomed relationship, calling it “almost a tragedy.” Nicks added, “He really can’t answer her / He’s afraid of her / He’s hiding from her / And he knows that he’s ...
Scholarly interpretation of the poem often focuses on themes of sleep, dreaming, and the somber conclusion to the piece, in which the narrator wonders if his oncoming sleep is a normal slumber, or a "long sleep." [2] The varying meter of the poem is thought to be indicative of the narrator's fitful state of mind as he drifts off to sleep. [3 ...