Read the last stanza from "To a Mouse" by Robert Burns. Still, thou art blest, compar’d wi’ me!
The present only toucheth thee:
But Och! I backward cast my e’e,
On prospects drear!
An’ forward tho’ I canna see,
I guess an’ fear!

How are the mouse and the speaker different?
A
The speaker can see the past and future, and is therefore more fortunate.
B
The mouse is less fortunate than the speaker because the mouse has had his home destroyed.
C
The mouse is more fortunate than the speaker because he can easily move to a different home.
D
The mouse only cares about the present while the speaker can remember his past and fear the future.

Answer

B : The mouse is less fortunate than the speaker because the mouse has had his home destroyed.

Explanation

I searched up the poem because you didn't include the whole poem. Basically, the speaker broke the mouse's nest / home. He feels very bad, and wishes that he hadn't broken the mouse's nest (this is why some of the answer choices have things to do with the past and present).

1.creeping like a snail is a simile used in this poem and it means the child is going to school unwillingly./a child is unwilling to go to school.

2. man becomes very frail and loses his physical strength when he becomes old, so much that his leggings that used to fit him snugly when he was in his youth are now too loose for him to wear, and that his shank has shrunk so much that this worldly stage is too big for a feeble actor like him. although, 'his youthful hose' just refers to his leggings/pants/ to shrink from danger; to shrink from contact.

3.the words "sans" means "without." it is a french word that is often used in english even today. so he is saying that in the last age of a man, the man is without eyes, taste, or anything else. he also says that this is the "last stage of all" and that it is the stage that ends a man's "history."

hope this !

it is the : d because is true