Ican't find the name of this book i read back in sophmore year. here's what i remember:
-a guy was writing poetic love letters to this pretty girl
-he wrote these letters anonymously to the girl
-the girl thinks that the soldier (or knight) she has a crush on wrote them to her
-the soldier/knight asks the dude to write her a letter saying that he is going into battle and he might not see her again.
side note: the guy who was writing the letters was unattractive and had a crush on the girl, but he was too afraid to tell her who he really was.

it's called a epic poem i believe, hope this ☺

in this passage from chapter 6 of "animal farm", by george orwell, what the author is ridiculing in this passage is the frivolity of some rules.

clover, the mare, believes she remembers that the fourth commandment forbade sleeping in beds because it was something that humans did. snowball, napoleon, and the pigs are brain-workers who look after the welfare of the farm. they are the obvious leaders because they are smart, and so they are entitled to eat the best food and sleep in beds. it is squealer, who says these lines making the difference between sleeping with sheets, what humans do, and sleeping in beds, what pigs do. the unwillingness to question authority makes the oppressed to obey without thinking.

cockroaches and rats often are a symbol for things that are disgusting or vile. though i don't know which play you are talking about, i hope this !