The Cat

Miroslav Holub: Was an immunologist which of course anything to do with medical i think is awesome, but im not sure why he would want to quit that and become a poet. his poems are not english they have to be translated into the english language. His poems translate into more than 30 languages.

The cat seems to be a poem about some girl that he loved and when he left him, he was devestated. The poem is very visual; you can almost imagine everything about this poem clearly as a movie. "I said to her do not go" is repeated twice making it a strong statement that if the girl left, it would be bad for her and could lead to something unwilling. "she dissolved" is also repeated twice and i also think Holub is just trying to make a stronger statement about his disbelief that she truly left. Maybev the poem could be about his daughter too. He says not ever she sees herself again, but maybe that means she left to actually find herself and she never returned to her old behaivor. Maybe she became someone with mroe confidence so no one could recognize her.

This poem has six stanzas.
1st stanza- 5 lines
2nd stanza-5 lines
3rd stanza-4 lines
4th stanza-2 lines
5th stanza-6 lines
6th stanza-6 lines
This poem has several lines and only the first two stanzas and the last two stanzas have the same amount of lines. Maybe this poem is also a ballad but there is I am unable to tell what exactly Holub is trying to express with this piece of writing. He has a sad tone but it would help if i could find better background knowledge about the poem personally.