There is a similarity in treatment of the cat metaphore there as in the Neruda. This has a much more relaxed approach. Neruda's cat threatened to pounce, but here there is a feeling of the cat being at one with itself: serenity!
Your use of the metaphor is astonishing and you have drawn attention to the individual to be at one with itself. In this sense it is as a continuation of the Neruda.
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There is a similarity in treatment of the cat metaphore there as in the Neruda. This has a much more relaxed approach. Neruda's cat threatened to pounce, but here there is a feeling of the cat being at one with itself: serenity! Your use of the metaphor is astonishing and you have drawn attention to the individual to be at one with itself. In this sense it is as a continuation of the Neruda.