From: Cat@yabbs
To: Natalie@yabbs
Subject: eliot 'n silverstein
Date: Mon May 30 21:32:03 1994

Yes I am happy that you re-read prufrock. :) question is, are YOU happy 
you re-read prufrock? I just like that poem 'cause i can identify w/ it. 
i'm not middle-aged and balding, but i'm terrified of encounters with the 
opposite sex sometimes..and i can understand how P. felt. and i think the 
image of a night being "stretched out like a patient etherized on a 
table" is cool. :) and eliot always uses cats in his poems (sure he uses 
them as metaphors for senuality but...) :)
about silverstein....hmm. he certainly is a poet in his own right. the 
subjects he deals with are "timeless" and so techically he should be 
classic. personally i don't think he will be. his stuff IMHO doesn't have 
the same sort of umph and uniqueness that say Roald Dahl's does, or 
Maurice Sendack's (sp?) does. and his illustrations aren't all that hot 
either. :) i never liked "the Giving Tree" the tree just let's the 
selfish little brat of a boy use her and walk all over her..not a very 
pretty picture. Now, had the tree finally decided she'd had enough, grown 
tentacles, strangled the Boy to death, and buried his body and used it 
for fertilizer to rejuvinate herself and the earth....THEN silverstein 
would be classic. :)
sorry this post is so long.

-tammie