https://padlet.com/dhaggerty/5hicg2im41g8 Close Reading - Annotating Virginia Woolf's "The Death of the Moth" en-us 2016-08-29 12:43:41 UTC 2016-08-31 12:34:23 UTC hello@padlet.com dhaggerty https://padlet.com/dhaggerty/5hicg2im41g8/wish/120280861 2016-08-29 12:45:32 UTC https://padlet.com/dhaggerty/5hicg2im41g8/wish/120280861 dhaggerty https://padlet.com/dhaggerty/5hicg2im41g8/wish/120280880 2016-08-29 12:45:37 UTC https://padlet.com/dhaggerty/5hicg2im41g8/wish/120280880 dhaggerty https://padlet.com/dhaggerty/5hicg2im41g8/wish/120281337 2016-08-29 12:48:14 UTC https://padlet.com/dhaggerty/5hicg2im41g8/wish/120281337 dhaggerty https://padlet.com/dhaggerty/5hicg2im41g8/wish/120281632 2016-08-29 12:49:19 UTC https://padlet.com/dhaggerty/5hicg2im41g8/wish/120281632 dhaggerty https://padlet.com/dhaggerty/5hicg2im41g8/wish/120353644 "Moths that fly by day are not properly to be called moths; they do not excite that pleasant sense of dark autumn nights and ivy-blossom which the commonest yellow-underwing asleep in the shadow of the curtain never fails to rouse in us. ]]> 2016-08-29 16:18:05 UTC https://padlet.com/dhaggerty/5hicg2im41g8/wish/120353644 dhaggerty https://padlet.com/dhaggerty/5hicg2im41g8/wish/120354354 A day-moth isn't really a moth because it doesn't evoke any particular emotion in us. We don't care about it, whereas a nocturnal moth, flying at night, evokes this "pleasant sense" in us. ]]> 2016-08-29 16:20:05 UTC https://padlet.com/dhaggerty/5hicg2im41g8/wish/120354354 dhaggerty https://padlet.com/dhaggerty/5hicg2im41g8/wish/120356416 "hybrid creatures, neither gay like butterflies nor somber like their own species" (line 4)]]> 2016-08-29 16:25:44 UTC https://padlet.com/dhaggerty/5hicg2im41g8/wish/120356416 dhaggerty https://padlet.com/dhaggerty/5hicg2im41g8/wish/120356724 The use of the word "hybrid," coupled with the comparison to the butterfly and nocturnal moth, characterize the day-moth as a sort of misfit, or outcast. ]]> 2016-08-29 16:26:42 UTC https://padlet.com/dhaggerty/5hicg2im41g8/wish/120356724 https://padlet.com/dhaggerty/5hicg2im41g8/wish/120540835 "The helplessness of his attitude roused me. it flashed upon me that he was in difficulties; he could no longer raise himself."]]> 2016-08-30 13:15:06 UTC https://padlet.com/dhaggerty/5hicg2im41g8/wish/120540835 https://padlet.com/dhaggerty/5hicg2im41g8/wish/120542571 2016-08-30 13:19:19 UTC https://padlet.com/dhaggerty/5hicg2im41g8/wish/120542571 https://padlet.com/dhaggerty/5hicg2im41g8/wish/120542673 "One could only watch the extraordinary efforts made by those tiny legs against an oncoming doom which could,had it chosen, have submerged an entire city, not merely a city, but masses of human beings; nothing, I knew, had any chance against death."]]> 2016-08-30 13:19:33 UTC https://padlet.com/dhaggerty/5hicg2im41g8/wish/120542673 https://padlet.com/dhaggerty/5hicg2im41g8/wish/120542780 One of the major themes of this passage is that the moth represents far more than just a moth. Also, death is more powerful than anything]]> 2016-08-30 13:19:47 UTC https://padlet.com/dhaggerty/5hicg2im41g8/wish/120542780 mattgonzo314 https://padlet.com/dhaggerty/5hicg2im41g8/wish/120542943 "Just as life had been strange a few minutes before, so death was now as strange. The moth having righted itself now lay most decently and uncomplainingly composed. O yes, he seemed to say, death is stronger than I am."]]> 2016-08-30 13:20:10 UTC https://padlet.com/dhaggerty/5hicg2im41g8/wish/120542943 https://padlet.com/dhaggerty/5hicg2im41g8/wish/120543301 The moth was struggling to go on and persevere.]]> 2016-08-30 13:21:04 UTC https://padlet.com/dhaggerty/5hicg2im41g8/wish/120543301 claylouis365 https://padlet.com/dhaggerty/5hicg2im41g8/wish/120543535 "The same energy which inspired the rooks, the ploughmen, the horses, and even, it seemed, the lean bare-backced downs, sent the moth fluttering from side to side of his square window pane."]]> 2016-08-30 13:21:37 UTC https://padlet.com/dhaggerty/5hicg2im41g8/wish/120543535 https://padlet.com/dhaggerty/5hicg2im41g8/wish/120544253 "One could only watch the extraordinary efforts by those tiny legs against an oncoming doom which could, had it chosen, have submerged an entire city, not merely a city, but masses a human beings; nothing, I knew, had any chance against death."]]> 2016-08-30 13:23:06 UTC https://padlet.com/dhaggerty/5hicg2im41g8/wish/120544253 nickcyze https://padlet.com/dhaggerty/5hicg2im41g8/wish/120544344 "The same energy that inspired the rooks, the plowmen, the horses, and even it seemed, the lean, bare-backed downs, sent the moth fluttering from side to side from his square of the window pane." ]]> 2016-08-30 13:23:18 UTC https://padlet.com/dhaggerty/5hicg2im41g8/wish/120544344 mattgonzo314 https://padlet.com/dhaggerty/5hicg2im41g8/wish/120544483 While  in life just minutes  ago the moth was struggling just to fly, while in  death he seems to be extremely calm and ready. He has accepted that he's ready to die after the good fight he's been putting up to survive.

]]> 2016-08-30 13:23:38 UTC https://padlet.com/dhaggerty/5hicg2im41g8/wish/120544483 https://padlet.com/dhaggerty/5hicg2im41g8/wish/120545413 Essentially, death is inevitable. ]]> 2016-08-30 13:25:50 UTC https://padlet.com/dhaggerty/5hicg2im41g8/wish/120545413 nickcyze https://padlet.com/dhaggerty/5hicg2im41g8/wish/120545544 Everything has a contagious energy that excites every creature on earth to its duties, large or small. ]]> 2016-08-30 13:26:14 UTC https://padlet.com/dhaggerty/5hicg2im41g8/wish/120545544 https://padlet.com/dhaggerty/5hicg2im41g8/wish/120546037 She uses,"the masses of human beings" to describe the power death has over everything. and no matter how hard we try we will die.]]> 2016-08-30 13:27:28 UTC https://padlet.com/dhaggerty/5hicg2im41g8/wish/120546037 https://padlet.com/dhaggerty/5hicg2im41g8/wish/120546273 "O yes, he seemed to say, death is stronger than I am," (line 82).]]> 2016-08-30 13:28:07 UTC https://padlet.com/dhaggerty/5hicg2im41g8/wish/120546273 https://padlet.com/dhaggerty/5hicg2im41g8/wish/120546762 "It was as if someone had taken a tiny bead of pure life anmd decking it as lightly as possible with down and feathers, had set it dancing and zigzagging to show us the true nature of life."]]> 2016-08-30 13:29:35 UTC https://padlet.com/dhaggerty/5hicg2im41g8/wish/120546762 claylouis365 https://padlet.com/dhaggerty/5hicg2im41g8/wish/120546836 The moth is very relentless and is inspired by the same thing that inspired the ploughmen, horses, and rooks.]]> 2016-08-30 13:29:47 UTC https://padlet.com/dhaggerty/5hicg2im41g8/wish/120546836 nickcyze https://padlet.com/dhaggerty/5hicg2im41g8/wish/120547107 "What he could do he did. Watching him, it seemed as if a fiber, very thin but pure, of the enormous energy of the world had been thrust into his frail and diminutive body. ]]> 2016-08-30 13:30:31 UTC https://padlet.com/dhaggerty/5hicg2im41g8/wish/120547107 mattgonzo314 https://padlet.com/dhaggerty/5hicg2im41g8/wish/120547441 "I lifted the pencil again, useless though I knew it to be. But even as I did so, the unmistakable tokens of death showed themselves. The body relaxed and instantly grew stiff. The struggle was over"]]> 2016-08-30 13:31:15 UTC https://padlet.com/dhaggerty/5hicg2im41g8/wish/120547441 claylouis365 https://padlet.com/dhaggerty/5hicg2im41g8/wish/120547962 "The same energy which inspired the rooks, the ploughmen, the horses, and even, it seemed, the lean bare-backed downs, sent the moth fluttering from side to side of his square window pane."]]> 2016-08-30 13:32:33 UTC https://padlet.com/dhaggerty/5hicg2im41g8/wish/120547962 https://padlet.com/dhaggerty/5hicg2im41g8/wish/120548191 The use of commas and the use of the word but to start out this sentence creates a connotation that shows you something is "up." The sentence is elongated to create a depressed state of mind that creates a sad effect.]]> 2016-08-30 13:33:13 UTC https://padlet.com/dhaggerty/5hicg2im41g8/wish/120548191 mattgonzo314 https://padlet.com/dhaggerty/5hicg2im41g8/wish/120548623 The quote uses imagery to show the struggle of death. Not just of a moth that grew old, but the same with a human who has too grown old and what happens on the last  few moments of their lives, but also the first few moments of their death. ]]> 2016-08-30 13:34:31 UTC https://padlet.com/dhaggerty/5hicg2im41g8/wish/120548623 nickcyze https://padlet.com/dhaggerty/5hicg2im41g8/wish/120548853 This quotation provides the reader with a reminder to embrace the simplicity of the nature of life amidst all the hustle and bustle of our everyday world. Like the moth, we should strive to live with vigor and passion devoid of the approval of others. ]]> 2016-08-30 13:35:11 UTC https://padlet.com/dhaggerty/5hicg2im41g8/wish/120548853 claylouis365 https://padlet.com/dhaggerty/5hicg2im41g8/wish/120549015 The word "inspired" really showed how relentless the moth really is to get in.]]> 2016-08-30 13:35:33 UTC https://padlet.com/dhaggerty/5hicg2im41g8/wish/120549015 https://padlet.com/dhaggerty/5hicg2im41g8/wish/120549615 "As I looked at the dead moth, this minute wayside triumph of so great a force over so mean an antagonist filled me with wander."]]> 2016-08-30 13:37:16 UTC https://padlet.com/dhaggerty/5hicg2im41g8/wish/120549615 https://padlet.com/dhaggerty/5hicg2im41g8/wish/120549628 "But, as I stretched out a pencil, meaning to help him to right himself, it came over me that the failure and awkwardness were the approach of death," (line 56-58.]]> 2016-08-30 13:37:19 UTC https://padlet.com/dhaggerty/5hicg2im41g8/wish/120549628 https://padlet.com/dhaggerty/5hicg2im41g8/wish/120550467 The author's tone in this passage demonstrates how she is amazed and in awe by the energy exerted by the moth to try and die with some sense of class. ]]> 2016-08-30 13:39:31 UTC https://padlet.com/dhaggerty/5hicg2im41g8/wish/120550467 claylouis365 https://padlet.com/dhaggerty/5hicg2im41g8/wish/120550494 "With his narrow hay-colored wings, fringed with a tassel of the same color, seem to be content with life." ]]> 2016-08-30 13:39:38 UTC https://padlet.com/dhaggerty/5hicg2im41g8/wish/120550494 nickcyze https://padlet.com/dhaggerty/5hicg2im41g8/wish/120550926 "His zest in enjoying his meager opportunities to the full, pathetic. ]]> 2016-08-30 13:40:47 UTC https://padlet.com/dhaggerty/5hicg2im41g8/wish/120550926 https://padlet.com/dhaggerty/5hicg2im41g8/wish/120551658 This creates a depressed frame of mind and coneys the fact that death is inevitable.]]> 2016-08-30 13:42:41 UTC https://padlet.com/dhaggerty/5hicg2im41g8/wish/120551658 nickcyze https://padlet.com/dhaggerty/5hicg2im41g8/wish/120552915 It doesn't seem like the author is using the word pathetic in a negative way.  Pathetic in this sense means insignificant, but also pure. Albeit small, the moth knows its place in the universe and carries it out with]]> 2016-08-30 13:45:37 UTC https://padlet.com/dhaggerty/5hicg2im41g8/wish/120552915 claylouis365 https://padlet.com/dhaggerty/5hicg2im41g8/wish/120553843 The function of this quote is to use imagery to appeal to the readers senses.]]> 2016-08-30 13:48:17 UTC https://padlet.com/dhaggerty/5hicg2im41g8/wish/120553843