What then? poor beastie, thou maun live! An’ never miss ’t! Thy wee-bit housie, too, in ruin! It’s silly wa’s the win’s are strewin! O’ foggage green! Baith snell an’ keen! Out thro’ thy cell. Has …
The anxieties are not the mouse’s, they are the speaker’s. This poem is wildly self-obsessed and much darker than its popularity in the classroom would suggest. Its proposed subject-matter …
"To a Mouse, on Turning Her Up in Her Nest With the Plough, November, 1785" [1] [2] is a Scots-language poem written by Robert Burns in 1785. It was included in the Kilmarnock Edition [3] …
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On Turning Her Up in Her Nest with the Plough, November 1785. O' what a panic's in thy breastie! Wi' bickering brattle! Wi' murdering pattle. An' fellow mortal! What then? poor beastie, thou …
‘To a Mouse’ by Robert Burns describes the unfortunate situation of a mouse whose home was destroyed by the poet. The poem begins with the speaker stating that he knows about the …