To A Louse By Robert Burns Essay

The Romantics were a time of revolution, revolt, and change. In this time period, extraordinary pieces of literature came to be. Numerous works of arts erupting from this time period, were based around philosophy. To romantics, philosophy was the love of wisdom, or a whole new way to look at and experience the world. Robert Burns is considered a first generation writer of the romantic era. From scotland, burns uses dialect to emphasize his points. Another eluding fact about Burns’s writing is that it goes from simple to complex. His writing can resemble that of which is found in a child's story book, but ends with a philosophical message about life. Robert Burns’s, To a Mouse and To a Louse, express three philosophical messages.

For instance, Robert burns's poem, To a Mouse, introduces the theme of living in the present. This theme is presented by a field mouse, whose home is destroyed by the farmers plow. Unlike the farmer, the mouse isn’t concerned about his past, nor his he worried about his future. The mouse, narrowly escapes with his life, and in turn, his only instinct is to rebuild. “Still thou art blest, compared wi’ me! The present only toucheth thee..” (Pg. 736 Line 43) In these lines, the farmer proclaims his jealousy of the mouse; the mouse has the ability to live in the moment, whereas, the farmer does not.

This theme is presented when the farmer accidentally plows over the small field mouse's home, The mouse narrowly escapes with his life, and he immediately starts to rebuild. After any traumatic event, it is crucial to get up and keep going. In this poem, Burns takes a simple poem and intertwines a more complex message. “An’ naething, now to big a new ane, O’ foggage green!” (Pg. 735 Line 21) In these lines, burns reminds his audience that there’s never any reason to give up, you can always rebuild no matter how bad things