Still life

from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.” In Virginia Woolf’s essay The Death of the Moth, she observes the moth’s actions and the struggles it faces. Woolf keeps an eye on the moth and watches as the moths go through its course of life of struggling to get through the windowpanes, and eventually reaches death. The figurative language and syntax in the essay efficiently conveys the matters of life and death and what it means to be nothing but life. In the…

” “Still Life in Landscape,” “After Making Love in the Winter,” and “The Planned Child” use a similar, cathartic tone while telling a different story. Her topics aren’t overly creative, but…

not for you but for someone that loves you very much, it will hurt them. They may even think about suicide if you die. There is no direct reason to harm yourself. You may have a lot of reasons why you want to but it gets better you have to let your life run its course just like water has to flow down a river. Each year over 42,773 americans die by suicide each year. No one should ever be in this much pain to have to end their lives to be happy again. There are many other options. There are…

honor of the first born child is an act carried out to provide balance to earth. I imagine this was first done as an act of thanks to the earth for providing fertile soil that provides food to provide life. An eye for an eye so to speak. It is also ironic that fruit bearing trees have shorter life spans, similarly to humans relative to other things on earth. “I would have done the same” claims the speaker in regard to the birth of his son. When the author uses “would have” it is implying that…

Loss as referring to a death is something everyone in life has to experience sometime within your lifetime. A loss does not have to be a sad time, a loss of love one can be a life change experience. My first encounter of losing someone due to death had a dramatic change in my life. January 25th, 2011 was a day that has changed my life forever. It was not what President Obama was talking about in his State of the Union Address that affected me that night. January 25th, 2011 was the day my…

Robert Pinsky, we go through the thought process of a man who is attempting to come to terms with death. He looks at countless aspects of where life and death lead. He finally reaches a conclusion that leaves him with some piece of mind. Pinsky is alluding to the fact that death is not necessarily the finish but rather an essential element to the cycle of life. The first two stanzas introduce to us the idea of death and how the speaker feels he is surrounded by it. “And every day/…

encounters with this door. Fourteen year old Colton Burpo has also encountered this doorway and his story sparked the world’s attention. The stories that Colton Burpo tells from his experience in heaven have tested the medical and spiritual aspects of his life, the lives of his family, and lives all over the world. Dictionary.com states that a near death experience is a sensation or vision, as of…

and won. Some survivors are hard to spot and very unlikely candidates. To everyone a survivor is the obvious but that is not always the case. In truth, a survivor is someone who gets shoved down over and over again but can still get up, stand tall, brush off the filth of life, and smile. A survivor has the ability to rise up from rock bottom. They may be in dark times but a true survivor can ascend the staircase of darkness back up to the light. The staircase can be grueling and jagged,…

” Junior is caring and puts his best intentions towards the people he loves. This is shown by the quote on page 112. He loves them and does his best to protect him. He also shows his sensitivity when after everything they have been through, Junior still misses Rowdy. “But I missed Rowdy. I kept looking at the door. For the last 10 years, he’d always come over to the house to have a pumpkin-pie eating contest with me. I missed him.” (102) This shows that Junior is willing to let go of a grudge…

evoked by her subject matter. These dramatic attributes, however, do not prove to be antithetical to the core tenets of her thesis. While abstract—as Woolf predominantly is—the essay portrays a world replete with life and death symbolism, centered on the strenuous last moments of a moth’s life. This curious endeavour is the main catalyst for the viewer, shall she give it (the moth) a moment of humanity just before its death, or rather, let it be and allow its death to occur without hindrance?…