Mouse And Louse
Mouse and Louse
(Messages from the poems of To a Mouse and To a Louse)
In writing history there have been many different types of what could be called eras. In the 19th and 20th centuries the era was known as “The Age of Romanticism.” This era while not totally about this delusional and insane idea of love, focuses more towards the idea of social status and how humans are interconnected to animals and how people fit into society. Many famous authors emerged from this time period such as William Blake, Mary Wollstonecraft and Robert Burns. Burns, most noted for his poems about destroying a mouse’s desolate house while plowing the bitter fields of November to watching lice jump around in the beautiful hair of a wealthy woman in their society. Three messages from the poems To a Mouse and To a Louse by Robert Burns are Man’s dominion, likeness to animals and the socio-economic class system of the rich and poor.
First of all, in Mouse, Burns addresses man’s dominion and how it interacts with nature. …show more content…
Burns is saying that humans over the course of the centuries and millenniums we have been here have done much of nothing but antagonize the animals of the earth. As Henry David Thoreau says, “The savage in man is never quite eradicated.” (Thoreau) Meaning men will always be more concerned about themselves more than other life. Burns is relating to this idea of humans basically polluting the earth a hundred years before polluting became a major concern to us as people to the health of the world. This is Burns first message from his poem of
(Messages from the poems of To a Mouse and To a Louse)
In writing history there have been many different types of what could be called eras. In the 19th and 20th centuries the era was known as “The Age of Romanticism.” This era while not totally about this delusional and insane idea of love, focuses more towards the idea of social status and how humans are interconnected to animals and how people fit into society. Many famous authors emerged from this time period such as William Blake, Mary Wollstonecraft and Robert Burns. Burns, most noted for his poems about destroying a mouse’s desolate house while plowing the bitter fields of November to watching lice jump around in the beautiful hair of a wealthy woman in their society. Three messages from the poems To a Mouse and To a Louse by Robert Burns are Man’s dominion, likeness to animals and the socio-economic class system of the rich and poor.
First of all, in Mouse, Burns addresses man’s dominion and how it interacts with nature. …show more content…
Burns is saying that humans over the course of the centuries and millenniums we have been here have done much of nothing but antagonize the animals of the earth. As Henry David Thoreau says, “The savage in man is never quite eradicated.” (Thoreau) Meaning men will always be more concerned about themselves more than other life. Burns is relating to this idea of humans basically polluting the earth a hundred years before polluting became a major concern to us as people to the health of the world. This is Burns first message from his poem of