ONE of the most popular of all Burns’s poems, this mixes Scots and English vocabulary, compassionate sentiment towards a small wild creature, and sombre reflection on human life, the poet’s own ...
It will come as no surprise that a work by Robert Burns has been declared our favourite poem written in Scots. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get unlimited access to ...
Burns’s address to the mouse may initially suggest something rather sentimental; but read on, and the next verse sees Burns casting himself as the little creature’s fellow-mortal with a shared dignity ...
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