Question

Read the passage. Thou saw the fields laid bare and waste, An’ weary winter comin’ fast, An’ cozie here, beneath the blast, Thou thought to dwell, Till crash! the cruel coulter past Out through thy cell. In “To a Mouse” by Robert Burns, how does the speaker uncover the mouse?

A. He is picking the grain in his field.

B. He turns up its nest with the plow.

C. He sweeps up its nest in front of his house

Answer 1

C. He sweeps up its nest in front of his house

Answer 2

B. He turns up its nest with the plow.

In this passage the speaker says you, the mouse, saw the empty fields and with winter coming decided to make a home in them underneath the cold winds. Then crash! The plow blade cut through your house. In this passage the speaker is plowing his field to get it ready to lay fallow for winter when he turns out the mouse from it's house.