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Keats - 'To Mrs Reynolds's Cat'
Posted by: Carol (---.cache.pol.co.uk)
Date: May 16, 2022 01:16PM

I am trying to analyse this poem and found out that it is a parody of sommets that Milton addressed to the Parliamentarian leaders of his day. Where can I find out more about this poem and critical opinions of it?
Any guidance would be much appreciated.

Re: Keats - 'To Mrs Reynolds's Cat'
Posted by: Pam Adams (---.csupomona.edu)
Date: May 16, 2022 04:20PM

I didn't run across any criticism of this poem specifically. Perhaps comparing it with the poems it parodies would work.

pam

To Mrs. Reynolds's Cat
by: John Keats

Cat! who hast pass'd thy grand climacteric,
How many mice and rats hast in thy days
Destroy'd? -- How many tidbits stolen? Gaze
With those bright languid segments green, and prick
Those velvet ears -- but pr'ythee do not stick
Thy latent talons in me -- and upraise
Thy gentle mew -- and tell me all thy frays
Of fish and mice, and rats and tender chick.
Nay, look not down, nor lick thy dainty wrists --
For all the wheezy asthma, -- and for all
Thy tail's tip is nick'd off -- and though the fists
Of many a maid have given thee many a maul,
Still is that fur as soft as when the lists
In youth thou enter'dst on glass-bottled wall.

Re: Keats - 'To Mrs Reynolds's Cat'
Posted by: Hugh Clary (---.sdsl.cais.net)
Date: May 16, 2022 07:46PM


I looked around the net at Milton's stuff (and remembering the sonnet conversation from another thread), but I could not find a suitable target for the parody. I hope the thread doesn't die out, though, as I would like to read the solution, if found.



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