"To a Mouse, on Turning Her Up in Her Nest with the Plough" (also known as just "To a Mouse") is a poem written by Robert Burns.[1][2] The poem was written in Scots in 1785.[1][2] "To a Mouse" is about a young man who accidentally overturns the soil of a mouse’s nest.[3]
John Steinbeck named his novella Of Mice and Men after a line in the seventh stanza of the poem. This line is: "The best laid schemes o' mice an' men / Gang aft agley" ("The best laid schemes of mice and men / Go often askew").
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "To A Mouse, On Turning Her Up In Her Nest With The Plough". robertburns.org. Archived from the original on 2021-05-21. Retrieved 2011-09-25.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "To a Mouse". cummingsstudyguides.net. Retrieved 2011-09-25.
- ↑ "Robert Burns' "To a Mouse": Analysis". BestWord. Archived from the original on 2011-09-08. Retrieved 2011-09-25.