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Arts & Humanities > Poets & Poetry Poetry analysis: To a Mouse, by Robert Burns

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The mouse is interesting to him because its plight reminds him of his own. The comparison, however, is neither forced nor sentimental, and the gap between the world of mice and men is bridged by friendly compassion. The poem has charm and vigour as well as technical skill. I feel what the artist is trying to say is that through all of the mouse's trouble he is still luckier than him. It is as though he is saying to the mouse, 'you only worry about the present whereas I look on the past and see all my dreary memories, and I look toward the future scared of what's coming'. It is as though he...

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