As a child in Cornwall, England, Virginia Woolf had some irreversible fishing experiences that have influenced her life. In this excerpt, Woolf's language obviously conveys the significance of those moments. Woolf uses her language in her first had experiences, her father's impression, and at the end of the passage to help enhance these lasting moments.
Woolf blatantly states "how can I convey the excitement" (15-16) of fishing. Immediately after, she describes "there was a little leaping tug [...] up through the water at length came the white twisting fish" (16-17). While Woolf doesn't use vivid adjectives to tell of her experiences, what she remembers is enough to signal the reader of her "excitement" for fishing. Further than that, you might sat that just a
Woolf takes the opportunity in this passage to convey her childhood experiences fishing. She uses her language in an excellent way of doing that, but what Woolf is doing is savoring a time in her life. Not that she really wants to go back to that time, but that she realizes the priceless worth of the experiences and she wonders what would have happened.
As I just mentioned, Woolf has not forgotten her past,. It is almost impossible to do that. In fact, "the memory of [her] passion" enables her "to construct an idea of the sporting passion". At this point, Woolf tries to refute the "extinguishing" words of her father, and her language notes a change too. For the first time Woolf relates her experience to something outside of the,. In this case, that is a seed
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