... few poets have and Gibbons Ruark has it for sure. And the way he has ended the poem is outstanding, how he describes the cat's movements as such which only free animals in dark can do and how that one stroke by the cat replaces all human noises such as that of the car and lingers on in the narrator's mind ... ...

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• Grade Level: Graduate