In the poem “The Lesson of the Moth,” both the moth and the cockroach have their own philosophies on how life should be lived. I believe in the moth’s philosophy. I believe beauty is everything. Like the moth, I would prefer to have a shorter life filled with beauty and happiness than to have a long life full of fear causing me to avoid everything and never being able to experience anything fun or getting to see true beauty. The moth lives an exciting and short life, and he was able to see what he thought was a true beauty. I don’t see how anyone could not want a life of beauty. To me it makes more sense to have seen true beauty with a short life than it does to want to live a long life of nothing but caution for everything you do. For example,
