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Minor Poems by T.S. Eliot
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The section "Minor Poems" from T.S. Eliot's Complete Poems: 1909-1962 collects the following poems:

� "Eyes that last I saw in tears"
� "The wind sprang up at four o'clock"
� "Five-Finger Exercises"
� "Landscapes"
� "Lines for an Old Man"

I wasn't particularly fond of any of these poems but really enjoyed the final stanza of "Five-Finger Exercises":
How unpleasant to meet Mr. Eliot!
With his features of clerical cut,
And his brow so grim
And his mouth so prim
And his conversation, so nicely
Restricted to What Precisely
And If and Perhaps and But.
How unpleasant to meet Mr. Eliot!
With a bobtail cur
In a coat of fur
And a porpentine cat
And a wopsical hat:
How unpleasant to meet Mr. Eliot!
(Whether his mouth be open or shut).
I haven't read any of Eliot's cat poems (THE DUALITY OF THIS MAN—can you believe that the man who write "I have seen my greatness flicker" als wrote a FULL BOOK of silly cat poems??? I AM IN LOVE WITH THIS MAN) but I imagine his cat poetry to be somewhat in the vain of this—more silly, more whimsical. We love to see it!
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