‘Milk for the Cat’ and ‘A Case of Murder’

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My task is to compare two poems called 'Milk for the Cat' which is written by Harold Monro and 'A Case of Murder' which is written by Vernon Scanell.

The title 'Milk for the Cat' suggests that it is about a cat that is greedy and when she/he goes to drink her/ his milk she/he dies. The title 'A Case of Murder', suggests that it is about a killer who murders someone and detectives are investigating it.

The poem 'Milk for the Cat' is about a cat that wants some milk and waits for it. In the end she gets her milk, at the last drop of the milk she sinks back into the night.

The poem 'A case of Murder' is about a cat that was left alone in a basement flat and he only was nine. There was a boy who hated the cat and he dumped the cat in a spidery cupboard under the stair.
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The Cat in 'Milk for the Cat' is quite stubborn because she has to have her milk and in the end she gets it. The cat in 'A Case of Murder' is quite innocent because she didn't do anything to the boy.

The people in 'Milk for the Cat' are eating and are laughing while two old ladies are stroking their silk. The boy in 'A Case of Murder' keeps on looking at the cat, he didn't like the cat so he took his daddy's stick and hit the cat and then he dumped it in ...

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