“To a Mouse” Paragraph In the poem “To a Mouse,” Robert Burns views dreams as pointless illogical unreachable impractical goals. The mouse’s home is destroyed by the farmer, demonstrating “The best laid schemes o’ Mice an’ Men, Gang aft agley,” (Burns). The mouse worked so hard to collect all his food and in an instant his dreams were destroyed by the farmer’s plow. The mouses’ misfortune highlights the fact that someone can work all their life for something and never get it. Burns’ thoughts are also displayed by Steinbeck when Lennie and George talk about how they are “gonna get a little place,” (Steinbeck 105) however they work for years to obtain this dream and it’s crushed when George kills Lennie. Although they never get their dream,