In this essay the author uses different methods of personification of insects to describe the same thing - human nature. While Thoreau vividly depicts a large-scale battle between two ant species in his yard, Virginia Woolf gives a detailed and intimate account of the short life and death of a daytime moth. The difference between these two writers isn't simply style or choice of vocabulary (which is intended to set an appropriate mood in the …showed first 75 words of 865 total…

…showed last 75 words of 865 total…better understanding of the implicit ideas that are the basis of the two essays. I finished the essay by tying these two apparently different approaches to a common idea regarding human life. Works Cited: Woolf, Virginia. "The Death of the Moth", The Norton Reader Pp. 656-658. 10th Shorter Edition, New York 2000. Peterson, Brereton, Hartman. Thoreau, Henry David. "The Battle of the Ants", The Norton Reader Pp. 463-471. 10th Shorter Edition, New York 2000. Peterson, Brereton, Hartman.