Literary notes about Islet (AI summary)
The examples reveal that the word “islet” is often employed to evoke a sense of isolation, mystery, and adventure. In many narratives, such as those by Jules Verne [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11], the islet becomes a crucial setting—a small outpost amidst vast waters that can be both transient and treacherous. Meanwhile, other authors like Edgar Allan Poe [12, 13, 14, 15] and Walter Scott [16, 17] use the term to lend an eerie or dramatic atmosphere to landscapes that are as crucial to the mood as the events unfolding within them. Even in works spanning from Marco Polo’s legendary travels [18] to José Rizal’s contemplations of solitude [19] and the historical narratives of Snorri Sturluson [20, 21], the islet stands as a metaphor for remoteness and delicate, often transient, human encounters with the natural world.
- "Yes, professor, but I was luckier than you, and right away I was able to set foot on this floating islet."
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne - The monster again became an islet, rock, or reef, but a runaway reef, unfixed and elusive.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne - The islet of Aphroessa was circular in shape, measuring 300 feet in diameter and thirty feet in height.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne - Seven days later, on February 13, the islet of Aphroessa appeared, leaving a ten–meter channel between itself and Nea Kameni.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne - The hypothesis of a drifting islet or an elusive reef, put forward by people not quite in their right minds, was completely eliminated.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne - "Professor, I set up my workshops on a deserted islet in midocean.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne - In an hour we had reached the islet.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne - To the south, ten miles from the Nautilus , a solitary islet rose to a height of 200 meters.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne - "Islet?"
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne - Not a reef, not an islet.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne - Then, when the operation was over, we burned every trace of our stay on that islet, which if I could have, I'd have blown up."
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne - Slowly she glided along, and at length rounded the islet and re-entered the region of light.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Edgar Allan Poe - Slowly she glided along, and at length rounded the islet and re-entered the region of light.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition by Edgar Allan Poe - It proved to be a low rocky islet, of about a league in circumference, and altogether destitute of vegetation, if we except a species of prickly pear.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition by Edgar Allan Poe - No ice whatever was to be seen; nor did I ever see one particle of this after leaving the parallel of Bennet’s Islet.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition by Edgar Allan Poe - With sheathed broadsword in his hand, Abrupt he paced the islet strand, And eyed the rising sun, and laid His hand on his impatient blade.
— from The Lady of the Lake by Walter Scott - The Harper on the islet beach.
— from The Lady of the Lake by Walter Scott - "A marble bridge connects this island (an islet with the hall I- t'ien tien ) with the Wan-sui shan .
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Marco Polo and da Pisa Rusticiano - A solitary islet outlined in the distance spoke only of solitude and made the space more lonely.
— from The Reign of Greed by José Rizal - He conducted them through a forest to a lake, in which there was an islet overgrown with reeds.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson - They waded out to the islet, and hid themselves among the reeds.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson
