Some Literary Thoughts: “The Island of the Fay”

Written by Edgar Allan Poe, “The Island of the Fay” is a short story that is hard to sum up as to what it’s about.  As for plot, it is mostly about the narrator’s musings about science and the divine.  Then, the narrator finds an island and watches a Fay circle around an island in a boat, until the Fay ultimately disappears into the shadows.  However, amid this short narrative, we can interpret the themes in two ways, which I will endeavor to do so.  Before I begin, I do feel I should note that literary interpretation is fairly individual, so I encourage you to read the piece for yourself and take my personal analysis of the piece with a grain of salt.