Stray Cats They are not exactly homeless. They are dissidents who have lost their faith in furnished…
The strays are defined against domesticated cats and the settled home’s comforts. Wildness, ominousness and mystery are attributes developed in the account rather than its…
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Stray Cats
They are not exactly homeless.
They are dissidents who have lost their faith
in furnished interiors, morning walks,
the cake and the cutlery.
When you have nine lives to live
you learn to take things in your stride.
You learn to stretch your body
at full length and yawn at domestic
fictions. And for this reason
you figure in horror films
in the mandatory moment
between the flash of lightning
and the appearance of the ghost.
The light is darkish blue and you see
yourself in the iris of the burning
eye. The horror is in the seeing.
What you see is altered by the act
of seeing. The mystery does not stop
there. The seer is in turn altered
by what he sees. Having known this,
stray cats jump from roof to roof.
They monitor the world from treetops
and hold their weekly meetings
in the graveyard, like wandering mendicants.
And when they walk out of the mirror
of the sun and cross the crowded road
in a flash, for a shining moment,
they lurk in the light like a giant shadow
of doubt. Ill-omens to those who cannot
see beyond what they see.
The poem constructs its account of stray cats by way of a contrast with
Answer and explanation
Correct answer C
The strays are defined against domesticated cats and the settled home’s comforts. Wildness, ominousness and mystery are attributes developed in the account rather than its primary contrasting class.
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