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Question 1

Answer 1

The poem is the following:

The Golden Cat

Great is the Golden Cat who treads

The Blue Roof Garden o’er our heads,

The never tired smiling One

That Human People call the Sun.

He stretches forth his paw at dawn

And though the blinds are closely drawn

His claws peep through like Rays of Light,

To catch the fluttering Bird of Night.

He smiles into the Hayloft dim

And the brown Hay smiles back at him,

And when he strokes the Earth’s green fur

He makes the Fields and Meadows purr.

His face is one big Golden smile,

It measures round, at least a mile—

How dull our World would be, and flat,

Without the Golden Pu Cat.

Answers:

1. The world would be boring without the company of cats.

2. "How dull our World would be, and flat, / Without the Golden Cat."

Explanation:

The poem is all about highlighting and appreciating the simple little things a cat does, as well as the cat itself. Adjectives used to describe the cat such as "great" and "golden" and some of the analogies made such as comparing its claws to “Rays of Light” support the central idea that the world would be boring without the company of cats, and the evidence that best supports that idea are the following lines: "How dull our World would be, and flat, / Without the Golden Cat."