Death Of The Moth Rhetorical Analysis

After reading "The Death of a Moth" by Annie Dillard I can conclude that this essay has a second meaning to it. I can see that Dillard wrote this essay with a lot of details so readers could understand what she was saying or to make readers imagine what she experienced. This essay that Dillard wrote talks about how she watched a moth burn for over two hours. Dillard implied that the moth still meant something even after it was burned. This is why I think that this essay that Dillard wrote has a second meaning to it.

The poem begins with a beautiful scene of the vast mountains and a hawk flying through it. It introduces the usage of geometrical diction, which continues throughout the poem. The speaker uses words such as “geometries”, “angularity”, and later on “edge”, “sharp”, and “axis” in the poem to show the definiteness and preciseness of death. It shows that death is not something that might happen, but will. The diction is also very sharp, which conveys

What are the conditions when society gets destroyed? Dystopias can be described as an imagined place where everything is miserable. They are characterized by human misery and poverty. The following essay will contain evidence from three stories; The Lottery by Shirley Jackson, Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut, and There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury. The authors of the dystopian stories, all demonstrate the theme of an oppressive government which assists them in showing how the government has the power to destroy society by stoning people, putting restraints on them and even using nuclear bombs, which all cause the death of innocent citizens.

Death can never be escaped no matter what. In “The Masque of the Red Death” Edgar Allan Poe shows the theme of death, a suspenseful mood, and an ominous tone. Through Poe’s use of literary devices, the reader can discover tone, theme, and mood. Throughout Poe’s life he experienced death with two of his mother’s and his young wife. Death is shown how inevitable it is with Poe’s writing and experiences combined together.

In the course of her memoir An American Childhood, Annie Dillard combines images and memories of her life with various reflections from her adult self. Her memoir spreads from early youth when she has not yet “awakened” until her later life as a teen struggling with coming to terms with the world around her and the society she lives in. Throughout the course of her memoir, Dillard presents the world through a slightly pessimistic point of view as a way to highlight the complexities and reality of life growing up in America.

He uses words such as: bad, wrong, long, little, and strange. These all add to the melancholy tone, all while aiding to the idea that death is a friend in a way. With this, death feels depressing, but still very important to humans.

Virginia Woolf and Annie Dillard both wrote marvelous essays about a moth. Virginia Woolf’s essay was titled “Death of A Moth,” and Annie Dillard was titled the “Death of the Moth”. The main similarity between these two essays is in the naming of their essays but after that they are very different. Both Dillard and Woolf wrote extensive and detailed essays leading to the death of a moth but from a very different perspective. Each author has very different writing styles and tones. Dillard utilizes more blunt, and often graphic description in her writing, contrasting with Woolf’s reverent and solemn writing. Dilliard also kept notes in a journal in order to "accumulate" life and make later writing easier. Dilliard, believes that as a

Manipulating Moments in Time: Comparing John Hersey’s Hiroshima and Virginia Woolf’s The Death of a Moth

In the story The Death of the Moth, Virginia Woolf illustrates the universal struggle between life and death.  Woolf portrays in passing the valiance of the struggle, of the fight of life against death, but she acknowledges as well the difficulty of this struggle.  Woolf’s purpose in writing this essay is to depict the patheticness of life in the face of death, and to garner respect for the awesome power that death has over life.  Throughout the essay Woolf adopts a calm, observant, and sophisticated tone in order to present her message and experiences to her readers through imagery, symbolism, and her use of personification.

Li-Young Lee’s poem “Eating Alone” expresses a son’s loneliness and love for his father that has passed away. He continuously connects the father to all that the speaker does whether it is lifeful or not. Lee does so in a way through imagery, tone, and irony.

As individuals, we each have our way in creating our own work of art. Whether it is the same subject for a painting, writing assignment, or a drawing the exclusiveness in the craftsmanship is always noticeable. In the essay "The Death Of A Moth", both Woolf and Dillard, exemplify this idea of having the same subject but bringing a different meaning to their muse. They each begin their essay in different settings, as well as expressing their thoughts in unique ways; they end with the moth holding different values to their works. With all this taken into account, their essays had a similar theme that they were trying to get across to their readers.

In the passage by Annie Dillard, she writes about a moth who was restrained in a jar, then when it is set free, it is unable to fly. In the story “The Best Gift of my Life,” Cynthia Rylant lives in a rundown apartment with her mother. She dreams of a better life. While she is in her small hometown, called Beaver, she feels smart, pretty and fun. This is similar to the moth being comfortable in the glass jar, because it has not been exposed to anything else all it’s life Whenever Cynthia leaves Beaver she feels like she is a nobody: “But as soon as I left town to go anywhere else, me sense of being somebody special evaporated into nothing, and I became dull and ugly and poor”. When she goes away to college, this feeling goes with her. She is

In the beginning of Part II, scene starts off with Shimamura observing a moth. This small scene seems to be insignificant to the rest of the book as it was only a page long. During this scene, Shimamura notices one specific moth on the window screen; “The moth did not move. He struck at it with his fist, and it fell like a leaf from a tree, floating lightly up midway to the ground” (Kawabata 90). As he stares at the moths, he wonders if it is alive or not. To confirm his belief, he hits the screen and the moth falls off. The way Kawabata described the way the moth fell shows how delicate the insect is. He describes the moth’s fall as a leaf falling off a tree. When a leaf falls from a tree, it falls silently and gracefully. The moth is fragile, so delicate its path can be easily moved by

The story begins with a husband and wife, Harry and Helen, stranded on the plains of Africa. Our main character, Harry, has an infected leg that is slowly killing him. As he waits rescue he begins to look back on his life wondering whether or not he has lived a

The inevitable despair love causes, leads to the arrival of new beginnings that can tear apart the passion that was once the fruit of an individual's inspiration. In “The Apparition” the narrator relates that once he is dead he will come back and haunt his lover for having made him feel less and lead her to a life full of anxiety. He thoroughly explains the desperation that she will feel once his spirit returns after she thinks she has gotten rid of him. Not only does he state that he will return to her life, but he foretells that her new lover will turn his back on her, and all of this is tied to the love that she killed. Likewise, in “ My Mistress’ Eyes” the author becomes realistic and compares his mistress with the correct associations. Repetitively the author brings out his mistress’ physical attributes with horrid comparisons, and relies on the reality of their love. “Dover Beach” revolves around the