Thursday, October 18, 2007

comparison death of a moth

Anne's "Death of a Moth" has more of a detached feeling with the moth because she is describing waht she witnessed. Anne uses a lot of 'I's but doesn't really give the whole feel of becoming one with the moth and going inside the moth's mind. Woolf, however,portrays the moth as a person and not a detached object.
Anne's metaphor choice is the fact taht the moth dies, but its body/head burns for another 2 hours giving light for her to read. This is a metaphor to the fact that whn you write a poem, "your head should be on fire." Today we read the works from those whose bodies are gone but their "heads on fire." They have given us light to read.
Woolf's metaphor is more about the weak people, like the moth who died, and portraying them through the moth. The moth symbolizes the pathetic people in the world.
Syntax for Anne is more personal than the eloquent poetic form of Woolf's work. Anne does have some poetic parts but Woolf's entire piece is poetic feeling.

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