Death of a Moth
Watches a moth struggle and die on a windowpane; tiny creature's fight against death is 'superb'; the force of life confronting the force of death
Watches a moth struggle and die on a windowpane; tiny creature's fight against death is 'superb'; the force of life confronting the force of death
Written ~1927, published posthumously 1942. The Woolf essay most like your work: finding enormous meaning in the smallest possible event.
Key themes: Death, life force, observation, mortality, small things, the sublime in the ordinary