Rum Tum Tugger Rum Tum Tugger Rum Tum Tugger is one of the many feline characters in the poetry book "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats" by T. S. Eliot, published in 1939, and in the musical "Cats", which premiered in 1981 and is based on Eliot's book. Eliot draws attention to the similarities between feline and human personality traits. Rum Tum Tugger is portrayed as the rebel cat who cannot help but be difficult. He is never satisfied with what you give him; He is notoriously hard to please and sets himself apart from others by trying to be different. He always
T. S. Eliot quotation from his poem "East Coker", "In my beginning is my end. In my end is my beginning." In 1967, on the second anniversary of his death, Eliot was commemorated by the placement of a large stone in the floor of Poets' Corner in London's Westminster Abbey. The stone, cut by designer Reynolds Stone, is inscribed with his life dates, his Order of Merit, and a quotation from his poem "Little Gidding", "the communication / of the dead is tongued with fire beyond / the language of the living." The apartment block where he died, No. 3 Kensington Court Gardens,