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Curiosity

Curiosity . Alastair Reid. Curiosity may have killed the cat; more likely the cat was just unlucky, or else curious to see what death was like, having no cause to go on licking paws, or fathering litter on litter of kittens, predictably. Nevertheless, to be curious

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Curiosity

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  1. Curiosity Alastair Reid

  2. Curiosity may have killed the cat; more likely the cat was just unlucky, or else curious to see what death was like, having no cause to go on licking paws, or fathering litter on litter of kittens, predictably. Nevertheless, to be curious is dangerous enough. To distrust what is always said, what seems to ask odd questions, interfere in dreams, leave home, smell rats, have hunches do not endear cats to those doggy circles where well-smelt baskets, suitable wives, good lunches are the order of things, and where prevails much wagging of incurious heads and tails. Face it. Curiosity will not cause us to die-- only lack of it will. Never to want to see the other side of the hill or that improbable country where living is an idyll (although a probable hell) would kill us all. Only the curious have, if they live, a tale worth telling at all. Dogs say cats love too much, are irresponsible, are changeable, marry too many wives, desert their children, chill all dinner tables with tales of their nine lives. Well, they are lucky. Let them be nine-lived and contradictory, curious enough to change, prepared to pay the cat price, which is to die and die again and again, each time with no less pain. A cat minority of one is all that can be counted on to tell the truth. And what cats have to tell on each return from hell is this: that dying is what the living do, that dying is what the loving do, and that dead dogs are those who do not know that dying is what, to live, each has to do. Curiosity – Alastair Reid

  3. Comparison between a human’s life and a cat’s nine lives • Reference to Cats • Licking paws • Fathering litter on litter of kittens • Smell rats • Nine lives • Repetition • Curious/Curiosity • Die/dying/death • Life/live/living Diction

  4. “Curiosity may have killed the cat” • “licking paws, or fathering litter on litter of kittens” • “well-smelt baskets, suitable wives, good lunches” • “wagging of incurious heads and tails” • “dying is what the living do” Imagery

  5. Reid contributes a cat’s curious nature to the fact that they have 8 extra lives if the curiosity happens to kill them • The author’s view of people is similar to the view of the cats in that even though the curious nature runs the risk of danger, we think it is worth the risk for new knowledge. Details

  6. Reid uses his language to specifically create images in the reader’s mind • Differences between the mindsets of humans, cats and dogs. Language

  7. The poem is structured to outline the shifts from cat, to dog, to human • There is no particular rhyme scheme Structure

  8. Mr. Curiosity – Jason Mraz Background Music

  9. “Hey Mr. CuriosityIs it true what they've been saying about youWell are you killing meYou took care of the cat alreadyAnd for those who think it's heavyIs it the truthOr is it only gossipCall it mystery or anythingOh just as long as you call meI sent the message on did you get it when I left itSaid well this catastrophic eventIt wasn't meant to mean no harmBut to think there's nothing wrong is a problem” Connection in Lyrics

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