Old Possum's Book Of Practical Cats
(Eliot, T. S)
T.S. Elliot, well respected as a poet and a author curiously found his greatest success calling himself ?ol? Possum? in a book written in the 1930?s of short poems about cats and their curious natures. It is one of the most well recognized books of poetry in history.?Ol? Possum?s Book of Practical Cats? is successful first and foremost because it?s fun. Each cat has his or her own manners and mischief, Jenny Anydots, teaches the cockroaches manners and twists curtain strings, Rum Tum Tugger is unhappy with everything. They are an odd yet oddly familiar lot. We don?t have to have ever been to a train station to know Skimbleshanks the railway cat, a cat whose job it is to monitor and keep in order everything going on in his world.Matched to these wonderful, imaginative characters is T.S. Elliot?s Nobel Prize winning control of the rhythm flow of the English language. Many of the poems seem to be songs in their own right, jumping lyrically as the cats, prance, preen and caterwall. It?s easy to see why Andrew Lloyd Webber chose this book to translate into his musical ?Cats.? It?s as if it were written for song. There are a variety of rhyme schemes and literary devices at use making each poem fresh and lively in its own right.Ol? Possum?s will leave those unacquainted with how poetic books work somewhat let down. The book has no central story or point. It is just a fun, frolicking exploration of the lives and natures of cats.In a note for the culturally sensitive, Elliot looks somewhat disparagingly at non-white races particularly Asians. Those considering this book for a classroom or other settings for children should give it a look over first and be prepared to explain the ?non-PC? language.
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