Both Virginia Woolf and Annie Dillard are extremely gifted writers. Virginia Woolf wrote an essay in 1942 entitled The Death of the Moth. Annie Dillard later in 1976 wrote a similar essay in the title entitled The Death of a Moth and it even had a similar context. The two authors wrote powerful lyrics expressing their perspectives on the topic of life and death. Both had similar techniques but used them to develop completely different points of view. Each of the two authors incorporates a unique way of adding their own personal experience into their essay as they describe a specific occasion, time, and memory in their life. Woolf's personal experience begins with “it was a pleasant morning, in mid-September, mild, benevolent, but with a sharper breath than that of the summer months” (Woolf, 1). Annie Dillard's personal experience begins with "two summers ago, I was camping alone in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia" (Dillard, 1). Including personal experience allowed Virginia Woolf to give her own pleasant, fulfilling and understandable perception of life and death. Likewise, Annie Dillard used personal narrative to focus on life but particularly the life of death. To explore the power of life and death Virginia Woolf uses literary tools such as metaphors and imagery, along with a specific writing style and structure in a colloquial manner to create an emotional tone and connect with her reader the value of life, but to end accepting death through the relationship between a moth and a human. While Annie Dillard, on the other hand, uses the exact same literary tools along with a specific style and similar structure to create a completely different perspective on death, expressing that death is as it comes. ...... half paper...... much pleasure. In conclusion, the similarity in theme is easily noted in the two texts. The two texts also have many of the same literary techniques. The reason why Virginia Woolf writes about life and death through a moth is to highlight the importance of valuing life but ultimately being able to accept death. The ratio of the insignificant life of a moth is compared to the extremely important life of a human being. He structured his text in a way that was easy to follow and often changed the style of the text to create a different atmosphere. Annie Dillard's lyrics were more descriptive. He used great figurative language to help the reader paint pictures. He structured his text to connect the end to the beginning. The reason why Annie Dillard rewrote this lyric was to express death not the value of life but that death will come, and that's what it is.