Question

What has happened to the mouses attempt to prepare for winter?

Answer 1

In Robert Burns poem To a Mouse, there those lines:

An' weary Winter comin fast,

An' cozie here, beneath the blast,

Thou thought to dwell,

Till crash! the cruel coulter past

Out thro' thy cell.

The lines describe the fate of a mouse with a nearing of weary winter. The plow has destroyed her house. What she tried to do, what she built is destroyed like a dream being torn apart.

Answer 2

The mouse’s attempt to prepare for winter is ruined, wasted.

The speaker in the poem who is plowing the field disarranged the mouse’s nest accidentally. The little house she prepared for winter was in ruins because the plow went right over it. The speaker felt bad for the mouse.