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The first stanza of the poem is read by Ian Anderson in the beginning of the 2007 remaster of "One Brown Mouse" by Jethro Tull. Anderson adds the line "But a mouse is a mouse, for all that" at the end of the stanza, which is a reference to another of Burns's songs, "Is There for Honest Poverty", commonly known as "A Man's a Man for A' That".
Thus Willy Pogány juxtaposed the poem and a drawing of a mouse on the same page in a 1929 edition. And in Lisbeth Zwerger’s 1999 illustration the statement "Mine is a long and sad tale" is written along the Mouse's tail to make the same point. [5] A student discovery in 1991 that the poem functioned as a "quadruple pun" was later widely ...
Copies of the poem itself belong on Wikisource; as you can see, there is a link at the bottom of the article to the page on Wikisource that has the text of "To a Mouse". -- Paul A 02:00, 23 November 2006 (UTC) [ reply ]
The title is taken from Robert Burns' poem "To a Mouse": "The best laid schemes o' mice an' men / Gang aft agley" ("The best-laid plans of mice and men / Often go awry"). Although the book is taught in many schools, [ 3 ] Of Mice and Men has been a frequent target of censorship and book bans for vulgarity and for what some consider offensive ...
When Alice hears the mouse's "long and sad tale", she is watching his tail. So, she imagines the tale in its shape. [1] The "Fury" referenced in the tale is Carroll's childhood friend's dog. [2] The Mouse's Tale, as printed in the first edition The Mouse's Tale from Alice's Adventures Under Ground, Carroll's original 1864 manuscript
The poem, originally titled A Visit or A Visit From St. Nicholas, was first published anonymously on Dec. 23, 1823, in a Troy, New York newspaper called The Sentinel.
The Frome physician Samuel Bowden reads the same lesson into it in his mock-heroic poem 'occasion'd by a Mouse caught in an Oyster-Shell' (1736) that concludes with the lines Instructed thus – let Epicures beware, Warn'd of their fate – nor seek luxurious fare. [6] Bowden's poem was a popular one and anthologised for a century afterwards.
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