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"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 ] and all of the poet's later editions, such as the Edinburgh Edition .
Having a translation is nice, but I think the translation in its current form (as of the day I posted this) changes far more words than necessary. Modern English speakers don't know the meaning of the word "wee" (as in "wee hours of the morning")? "Strew" needs to be changed to "scatter"? And why change "mousie" to "mouse" (and mess up the meter)?
There a mouse crouches on the cover of an ancient book and looks across to an eruption. [34] Edward Julius Detmold, on the other hand, reverses the scale in his Aesop's Fables (1909) by picturing a huge mouse crouched upon a mountain outcrop. [35] The fable was also annexed to the satirical work of political cartoonists.
The poem tells of how the poet, while out with the plough, discovers that he has crushed a daisy's stem. It is similar in some respects to his poem To a Mouse, published in the previous year. In ploughing a field in the early morning, there must have been hundreds of small flowers that were turned down by the plough and why Burns was taken with ...
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In the eight-stanza satirical poem, the speaker draws the reader's attention to a lady in church with a louse that is roving, unnoticed by her, around in her bonnet. [2] In the course of the poem, the speaker addresses the louse as it scurries about on "Jenny" who cluelessly tosses her hair and preens, not knowing the person seeing her sees a louse on her.
My heart! At the end when they were sleeping with her, I totally melted! This brought back so many memories for me of bringing home our babies and our Westies meeting them for the first time.