Virginia Woolf’s essay “The Death of the Moth” is a piece that is effective in conveying her ideas through the use of language. By using the moth as a metaphor for humans, she shows that the way the moth lives its life is a model for human life. Her overall use of brevity, both in her language and the physical structure of the essay, serves to both convey her ideas and to provide her …showed first 75 words of 1101 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1101 total…not to reproduce it exactly, but how to improve your own style. Woolf shows writers that it is not as important of the quantity of words as much as the manner in which one says these words. Overall, as a person disconnected with the occupations of “reader” and “writer,” Woolf’s essay helps me to see that the most needs to be made out of life, because we are here for only a short time.