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

In class we read this poem bởi Don Marquis called "the lesson of the moth". It's about the speaker who witnesses a bướm, bướm đêm 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 bướm, bướm đêm 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 bướm, bướm đêm and see how it corresponds to the poetic message in the poem, then explain how the message relates to reality.

So are any of bạn bug experts? Is so could bạn name some similarities; if there are any?
 Laurielisa17 posted hơn một năm qua
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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 bạn 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 bạn 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 bạn relate this to our reality, bạn have people like the bướm, bướm đêm in the world, and people like the cockroach. bạn 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 bạn could say that the bướm, bướm đêm is immature and naive, and doesn't understand nor respect the thêm 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, hoặc 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 bạn live solely bởi the way of the moth, bạn end up like him in the end of the poem. His life was ended bởi lack of control, too much risk. But then the speaker (the cockroach) also isn't better off, as he would constantly be brought down bởi his boring existence brought upon bởi 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 bạn don't mind?
Laurielisa17 posted hơn một năm qua
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Hahah go for it ^_^
Zeppie posted hơn một năm qua
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