Skimbleshanks - The Railway Cat By T.S Eliot

 Bonjour friends! Hope you all are doing well. In today's blog, I am going to tell about a poem on a cat. Well,this isn’t a nursery rhyme, it is a great poem written by T.S. Eliot. Well, you might be knowing who he is but if you don’t know no problem. I will be telling you about T.S. Eliot and a poem written by him. T.S. Eliot, the 1948 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, is one of the giants of modern literature, highly distinguished as a poet, literary critic, dramatist, and editor and publisher. In 1910 and 1911, while still a college student, he wrote “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” and other poems that are landmarks in the history of literature. He was born on 26 September 1888 and died on 4 January 1965. One of his poems is Skimbleshanks: The Railway Cat too. Let me tell you the summary of this poem.

Skimbleshanks- The Railway cat is written by T.S Eliot. This is a narrative poem that tells us about Skimbleshanks, an extraordinary cat doing extraordinary acts on the train named "Nightmail". The cat is portrayed as the manager of the train. He has a keen eye for details and does not discriminate between first-class and third-class passengers. The poet describes how the cat safeguards the railway passengers throughout their journey and wins their trust and respect in this poem. As the train stops by many places like Dumfries, Carlisle, Crewe, and Gallowgate, the poet talks about the various deeds done by the cat. Skimbleshanks, who is very specific, likes everything to be the way it should be; therefore, the train is organized, and the passengers have a happy journey. Thus, they travel on the Nightmail again. You can search about this poem on google That’s the end of this blog coming toward us. So until then
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By- Saachi Gavale

Grade-5