How Is Personification Used In Death Of The Moth

Virginia Woolf’s essay “ Death of the Moth” describes three very important elements that were presented throughout the essay. Without these elements, she would have never got her worries and suffering out to her readers about the inescapable death. She shows the ultimate power of death that lingers from creature to creature. Showing there is no escape from death, itself is unbeatable. The essay “ Death of a Moth used the devices, imagery, personification, and simile.

Imagery presents itself frequently through the essay. The first evidence of imagery presenting itself would be when Virginia Woolf said, “ They do not excite the pleasant sense of dark autumn nights and Ivy-blossom which the commonest yellow-underwing asleep in the shadow of the

Virginia Woolf added human-like characteristics to personify life, death, and the moth's life. One way Virginia used personification was when she writes: “ Yet the power was all the same, massed outside indifferent, impersonal, not attending to anything in particular. Somehow it was opposed to the little hay-colored moth.” Virginia gives the moth more human qualities and gives the reader a more sympathetic view of the moth. In retrospect, she used this device to compare her own suffering to the moths suffering. How she also struggles with life a death. She used the moth as a crutch to deal with her own emotional problems.

With personification comes simile, Virginia used simile quite frequently throughout her essay. For an example, “...until it looked as if a vast net with thousands of block knots in it had been cast up into the air; which after a few moment sank slowly down upon the trees until every twig seemed to knot at the end of it.” This presents simile by Virginia describing her window where the moth was and the gathering of rocks in the trees right past the moth. This also shows how she has distracted herself from the real problem. Of she cruising thoughts that are eating her