In The Death of the Moth,Virginia told us a unique and profound story about the moth, triggering much of the contemplation of life and death.Theme Analysis and understanding of the essay,the writing styles and rhetorical devices,and my own thoughts will be discussed one by one in this paper: 1.Theme Analysis of the essay The essay is a symphony of life---the pleasant in the morning,the stillness of the noon,the extraordinary efforts against the doom and the acceptance of death.Also,it is a wonderful short drama---a tiny energetic moth enjoys life to his content in the vast vigorous world,and eventually died peacefully,uncomplainingly.However,it is this one-day-life moth that ignites the author's meditation on life and death. The moth's life to death constitutes the main line of the essay.But Virginia did not only rest on this level,she furthered her thought on the extension of breadth and depth,integrated with the thinking of life and death and the power of nature,"He was litle or nothing but life",thus creating a solemn and lofty art space and far-reaching artistic conception.The application of imagery stimulates the readers'variety of sensory,such as visual,auditory,and even olfactory.The plough,the rooks,the fields and the down beyond,the far-off smoke of houses...are all imagery showing respect and revere of life.Virginia strongly highlighted the small and large,the finite and infinite,and the transience and eternity.Based on these,it is not difficult to understand why Virginia regarded the moth as"a pure bead of life". 2.Writing styles and rhetorical devices Contrast is the main characteristic of this essay.A series of contrastive depiction in the essay reveals the writer's pondering on life and death.I sum up the serious of contrast into the following three aspects:the contrast and integration of tiny life and nature,"I"and human being,death and life. 2.1 tiny life and vast nature "Moths that fly by day are not properly to be called moths...They are hybrid creatures,neither gay like butterflies nor somber like their own species...He was little or nothing..."Virginia used a seriesIn The Death of the Moth, Virginia told us a unique and profound story about the moth, triggering much of the contemplation of life and death. Theme Analysis and understanding of the essay, the writing styles and rhetorical devices, and my own thoughts will be discussed one by one in this paper. 1. Theme Analysis of the essay The essay is a symphony of life---the pleasant in the morning, the stillness of the noon, the extraordinary efforts against the doom and the acceptance of death. Also, it is a wonderful short drama---a tiny energetic moth enjoys life to his content in the vast vigorous world, and eventually died peacefully, uncomplainingly. However, it is this one-day-life moth that ignites the author’s meditation on life and death. The moth’s life to death constitutes the main line of the essay. But Virginia did not only rest on this level, she furthered her thought on the extension of breadth and depth, integrated with the thinking of life and death and the power of nature, “He was little or nothing but life”, thus creating a solemn and lofty art space and far-reaching artistic conception. The application of imagery stimulates the readers’ variety of sensory, such as visual, auditory, and even olfactory. The plough, the rooks, the fields and the down beyond, the far-off smoke of houses… are all imagery showing respect and revere of life. Virginia strongly highlighted the small and large, the finite and infinite, and the transience and eternity. Based on these, it is not difficult to understand why Virginia regarded the moth as “a pure bead of life”. 2. Writing styles and rhetorical devices Contrast is the main characteristic of this essay. A series of contrastive depiction in the essay reveals the writer’s pondering on life and death. I sum up the serious of contrast into the following three aspects: the contrast and integration of tiny life and nature, “I” and human being, death and life. 2.1 tiny life and vast nature “Moths that fly by day are not properly to be called moths…They are hybrid creatures, neither gay like butterflies nor somber like their own species… He was little or nothing… ” Virginia used a series