Robert Burns 'Three Messages From' To A Louse

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(An Analysis of Three Messages from To a Mouse and To a Louse) An interest in different writing languages is slightly uncommon in today writing community. However, back in the eighteenth century, the idea of creating a new language, being an offspring of the British English, caught the attention of an author by the name of Robert Burns. Burns wrote his first piece as young as fifteen years old, it was a love poem to a girl he found attractive. Burns was known for writing in an interestingly different dialect. This simple yet large part of his writings played a part in the mood, setting and other aspects of his works. “I've found that good dialogue tells you not only what people are saying or how they're communicating but it tells you a great deal - by dialect and tone, content and circumstance - about the quality of the character.” (Wilson) He found himself writing very important poems with the offset dialect. Robert Burns’ To a Mouse and To a Louse express three important philosophical romantics’ messages. First of all, Burns’ Mouse shows the significance of living in the moment or present rather than dwelling in the past or looking into the future. Even though Burns’ poems are about simple events and characters, he has found a way to build great messages
The first was how the mouse was blessed for having the narrow sight of only the present. He didn’t have any worries of the future or any issues with his past. Also, the mouse in To a Mouse is similar to humans because he puts in lots of effort into something that has potential for being destroyed or wrecked by the drop of a hat. In Burns’ To a Louse he analyzes the idea of being blind to the flaws of oneself. The lady in the poem acted blind to the fact she had a dirty louse on her bonnet. All in all, Burns writes on many philosophical romantics’ messages from Mouse and