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I need help from people who know a lot about bugs.

In class we read this poem by Don Marquis called "the lesson of the moth". It's about the speaker who witnesses a мотылек, моль going towards a light bulb nearly killing itself. The speaker then asks why he it is so drawn to the light even though it knows it will die. The мотылек, моль tells the speaker that it would rather be a part of beauty for an instance and then cease to exist than rather live forever and never be a part of beauty.

So I have to compare and contrast a cockroach and a мотылек, моль and see how it corresponds to the poetic message in the poem, then explain how the message relates to reality.

So are any of Ты bug experts? Is so could Ты name some similarities; if there are any?
 Laurielisa17 posted Больше года
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Zeppie said:
Well it's not necessarily needing to know about bugs that is the point here but...

I had a read up on the poem, and when Ты take the moth, it is a risk taker, it is willing to live a short life in an instance as long as it is a happy life and go out with a bang...literally here with the light. Then Ты could have something like a cockroach that relates to the speaker who says he would rather live twice as long with half the happiness.
Cockroaches are ugly, unexciting creatures who are pretty darn indestructible, it takes a lot for them to die.

Then when Ты relate this to our reality, Ты have people like the мотылек, моль in the world, and people like the cockroach. Ты could say that the cockroach people envy the moth's way of life. Fast paced, exciting and happy while their own existence is and ugly one, dragged out and uneventful. And yet Ты could say that the мотылек, моль is immature and naive, and doesn't understand nor respect the еще conservative and civilised philosophy of the cockroach.

This is a reflection of life. Where beauty becomes envied as people seem to think that beauty equates to happiness. Beauty seems to equal an easy life with humans. And that if they are not beautiful, или do not have one small moment of excitement and the thrill of risk, then they will lead a long, boring sad life.

However one can't exist without the other. If Ты live solely by the way of the moth, Ты end up like him in the end of the poem. His life was ended by lack of control, too much risk. But then the speaker (the cockroach) also isn't better off, as he would constantly be brought down by his boring existence brought upon by not taking risks. Balance is needed to live a long but also happy life.

Sorry if that's not what you're after. It's 2am in the morning as I type this, forgive me xDD
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OMG THANK YOU!! Could I use one of your ideas if Ты don't mind?
Laurielisa17 posted Больше года
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Hahah go for it ^_^
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