Is Life Significant?

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distinct moth and a distinct death, it shows a significance for both. Yet "a" leaves both fairly ambiguous, showing that neither death nor the moth is very significant. In my mind this shows something of Dilliard's feelings about life. From this title alone I deduce that Annie Dilliard doesn't think much of anything in life is very important. However, Woolf shows a sort of respect or understanding of death and the moth in her title by using the phrasing that she does. Woolf says "The Death" and "The Moth" rather than leaving them undefined as Dillard does.
Yet besides the differences in the titles of the two there is a stronger difference between them. We now take into account the description of the moths in each essay. This descriptiveness can say a lot about the intentions of the writer and the meanings that are hidden in the essay. In "The Death of the Moth" Woolf describes the moth: "It was as if someone had taken a tiny bead of pure life and decking it as lightly as possible ...

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