This paper intends to reveal that Eliot’s life has a good influence on his poems, especially appearing in Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats which was published in 1939. But a version of it was announced by Faber and Faber, as “Mr. Eliot’s Book of Pollicle Dogs and Jellicle Cats as Recited to him by the Man in White Spats,’ in the spring of 1936. Therefore we need to feel out the period from before and between 1936 to 1939, when Eliot suffered fromdomestic problems ashe tried to divorce his wife Vivienne, and Vivienne herself was confined to the mental hospital Northumberland House in 1938. So this paper deals with his personal experiences (or situations and accidents) happening through his unhappy marriage, especially the emotional conflicts between him and his wife Vivienne in Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats.

• 여인천(칼빈대학교) | In-Cheon Yeou