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The Lake Isle of Innisfree
W B Yeats
About W B Yeats
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939), one of the foremost literary figures of the twentieth century, was the driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923. Some of his celebrated works are The Tower and The Winding Stair and Other Poems.
I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made;
Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee,
And live alone in the bee-loud glade.
And I shall have some peace there,
for peace comes dropping slow,
Dropping from the veils of the morning
to where the cricket sings;
there midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow,
And evening full of the linnet's wings.
I will arise and go now, for always night and day,
I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;
While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey,
I hear it in the deep heart's core.
Available Answers
- 1.
What does the speaker wish to convey through the word 'now' in the first line of the poem?
- 2.
Why does he want to go to Innisfree?
- 3.
What kind of a life will he create there?
- 4.
What does the speaker say about midnight and evening at Innisfree?
- 5.
What does he hear there by night and day? What is the effect of the sound on him?
- 6.
Which part of the speaker's being does the lapping of the water affect?
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