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Why the title Of Mice and Men? The title of the novel comes from a poem by the Scottish poet Robert Burns (1759 - 96): The best laid schemes o mice and menGang aft agley [often go wrong]And leave us nought but grief and painFor promised joy! Why the title? (cont’d.) Translate the portion of the poem into your own words: The best plans often fall apart and result in pain, rather than happiness. What can you predict about the story, based on the title? Not everything we plan will go the way we want. To A Mouse, On Turning Her Up In Her Nest With The Plough BY ROBERT BURNS 1785 Wee, sleekit, cowrin, timrous beastie, O, what a panics in thy breastie! Thou need na start awa sae hasty, Wi bickering brattle! I wad be laith to rin an chase thee, Wi murdring pattle! Im truly sorry mans dominion, Has broken natures social union, An justifies that ill opinion, Which makes thee startle At me, thy poor, earth-born companion, An fellow-mortal! I doubt na, whiles, but thou may thieve; What then? poor beastie, thou maun live! A daimen icker in a thrave S a sma request; Ill get a blessin wi the lave, An never misst! Thy wee bit housie, too, in ruin! Its silly was the wins are strewin! An naething, now, to big a new ane, O foggage green! An bleak Decembers winds ensuin, Baith snell an keen! Thou saw the fields laid bare an waste, 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. That wee bit heap o leaves an stibble, Has cost thee mony a weary nibble! Now thous turnd out, for a thy trouble, But house or hald, To thole the winters sleety dribble, An cranreuch cauld! But, Mousie, thou art no thy lane, In proving foresight may be vain; The best-laid schemes o mice an men Gang aft agley, Anleae us nought but grief an pain, For promisd joy! Still thou art blest, compard wi me The present only toucheth thee: But, Och! I backward cast my ee. On pr