Is he guilty of what he did?

By: L. Allen



The first line of the poem

The poem "To A Mouse" tells about a man who has taken a plow staff to his field not knowing he would mess up someones way of life. After he finishes do you think the man is guilty of what he has done?

This is what I assume after the man plowed his field, he finds a little mouse that is very scared. He sees the mouse is scared and upset and he gets upset himself.

He talks about how the mouse stole food from him but it was okay because they both needed to live, then apologized because he messed up the tiny mouse's way of life.

The man's plow destroyed the mouse's home and, the mouse knows his home is destroyed and sees that his home is nothing now.

The mouse is lonely and afraid, and the man knows the mouse is starving and will most likely freeze to death and that's his fault.


He says the mouse is doing better than him because present things scares the mouse but he is afraid of the future.

Therefore after reading this article do you agree that the man does fell guilty of what he did.