Dreams In Robert Burns's 'To A Mouse'

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In “To a Mouse”, Robert Burns views dreams as if they are fragile things that are broken easily.
Burns talks about the mouse in sympathy and is sorrowful that he had taken the mouse’s home away from the mouse by accidentally destroying its home for the winter, and that the mouse’s dream was to dwell in their cozy home, and even though the mouse had prepared everything Burns says that “The best laid schemes of mice and men go often awry.” The mouse’s misfortune illustrates Burns’ view of dreams and plans because the mouse’s house was destroyed just as easily as dreams can be

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