Answer:
In the stanzas containing the famous phrase 'of mice and men' Robert Burns, the poet, compares a rat's ability to live in the present to the human's inability.
Explanation:
Robert Burns is one of the defining figures of Romantic thought. <u>this poem compares the state of bliss that animals live in to the unnatural life a human leads</u> due to their excessive thinking and the woes of modern life.
this is evident in the last 2 stanzas of the poem 'to a mouse' when Burns first calls the mouse 'no thy-lane<u>'</u> and then <u>calls it more fortunate because it can blissfully live in the present</u> while<u> a human is doomed to worry about the future and keep thinking about the past.</u>
Denotation- "reptile" or "scaly"
Connotation- "evil" or "treachery"
"A. You know, of course, that she used to dive for her college swim team." does not have any errors in comma usage. "Of course" is almost always surrounded by commas.
The answer is A I believe tell me in the comments if I am wrong