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In the poem To a Louse Where does the speaker feel the louse should go instead? Why?

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Because he sees it on a fine lady's hat and he believes that a louse is most at home and should be found in lower places, like on cattle, on low born people, in fields, on small, dirty children. In the end, though, he says it makes equals of us all.