The Cat And The Moon by William Butler Yeats

The cat went here and there
And the moon spun round like a top,
And the nearest kin of the moon,
The creeping cat, looked up.
Black Minnaloushe stared at the moon,
For, wander and wail as he would,
The pure cold light in the sky
Troubled his animal blood.
Minnaloushe runs in the grass
Lifting his delicate feet.
Do you dance, Minnaloushe, do you dance?
When two close kindred meet.
What better than call a dance?
Maybe the moon may learn,
Tired of that courtly fashion,
A new dance turn.
Minnaloushe creeps through the grass
From moonlit place to place,
The sacred moon overhead
Has taken a new phase.
Does Minnaloushe know that his pupils
Will pass from change to change,
And that from round to crescent,
From crescent to round they range?
Minnaloushe creeps through the grass
Alone, important and wise,
And lifts to the changing moon
His changing eyes.

The personification used are in the line,"And the moon spun round like a top,"The author used this personification to perhaps show that the moon dances very elegantly. I am not very sure but I thought that the moon actually symbolise the eyes of the cat. The moon is still a moon but the eyes of the cat was like the changing phase of the moon.

I like this poem because I thought that the theme mysterious and complex. I especially liked the part where the poet asked Minnaloushe that if it knows that its pupils will change? The pupils could be the pupils of the eyes or pupils of Minnaloushe which was the moon. It may not be so complicated but it seem to be so. Thats probably why I choose this poem to share because I might get to know others perspective in this particular phrase.