‘Macavity – The Mystery Cat” is a humorous written by TS Eliot. The Poet was an essayist, a critic and a pioneering poet of the twentieth century.

Macavity is a mystery cat.  He is called  the Hidden Paw. He is the master  criminal. He is the Nepoleon of the crime. (The commanding leader of criminals).

Neither the Scotland Yard (the head quarters of London Metropolitan Police Service) nor the Flying Squad (a police ready to plunge – move with a rush into action) could trace the criminal.

 He has broken every human law. He is a ginger cat (alert and cautious) He cannot be compared with any other cat. He is very tall and thin. His brow is deeply lined with thought. His whiskers are uncombed. His head is highly domed (shaped like a round or half ball). He sways (moves) his side head from side to side with movements like a snake:

He is a monster (a big animal) of depravity (evil quality). He is a fiend (devil) in feline (of cat family). He is outwardly respectable.

The Scotland Yard cannot trace his footprints. You may meet him in a by street. You may see him in the square(open space).

The eatable in the larder (cupboard for storing food) is looted (robbed), the Jewel -case is rifled (ransack to steal), the Peke (a small Chinese dog) has been stifled, the glass of greenhouse is broken, the trallies (wooden bar used as a support for creepers) is broken, when an agreement is missing in the Foreign office, then Macavity is to blame.

He steals plans and drawings and leaves bits of paper in the hall or in the stair. The secret Service finds that it is the criminal act of Macavity.  But the cat is a mile away from the scene of occurrence.

One can see Macavity resting peacefully or licking his paws. He is engaged in doing complicated long division sums.  When a crime  is committed he will be somewhere else.

Comment:

Instead of using a human as the main character, T.S. Eliot, the poet has used a cat and attributed human qualities to it.