Moth In Annie Dillard's Essay

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More natural than wolf’s writing
Notas many big complicated words
She puts her private doubts in parenthesis
Moth is capitalized in the middle of a sentence

Figurative language
“At the same time, her six legs clawed,curled blackened and ceased,disappearing utterly”. In death her physical body decays but the memory of her lives on through her writing.”This moths-essence, this spectacular skeleton,began to act as a wick. She kept burning.”
Personification: “her little outfit”. Referring to the moth
Allusion: to Rimbaud french writer who was “self-destructive” Dillards commentary on writing
Interesting that he is inspiration for her writing-goes to purpose that something can come out of one's death.burnt out his brain in a thousand poems …show more content…
Your life was significant
While dillard was reading wolf’s essay she wasn't sure whether she disagreed or agreed with her interpretation that there is no life after death but by the end she formed a different opinion, Then in her own essay she starts off just observing the moth like Wolf did but then she makes her argument that there is infact a life after death.(writers leave their writing with the world after they die/moths make the flame brighter.

Allusion to woolf's “death of the moth”
A revision of woolf's death of the moth because she had a different purpose/ point of view on woolf's message
Both agree you should try to make the most of life however Dillard is trying to convey the message to a youthful audience by using colloquial language and referring to the relationship between teachers and students.
Adding to woolf's original idea of how we live in order to die by giving meaning to death and how we leave a message when we
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