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    <title>The Lake Isle of Innisfree Group at eNotes</title>
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    <description>The latest discussion, including questions and answers, from the The Lake Isle of Innisfree Group at eNotes.</description>
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        <title><![CDATA[In the poem 'The Lake Isle of Inisfree' by William Butler Yeats, the...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/lake-isle/q-and-a/what-do-you-think-meant-by-deep-hearts-core-122577</link>
        <description><![CDATA[In the poem 'The Lake Isle of Inisfree' by William Butler Yeats, the poet is feeling homesick for the landscape he loves in the west of Ireland. Although he came from an anglo-irish background he developed a deep love for the Irish people and their cause (freedom) and culture - he worked to develop drama and theatre after the setting up of the Irish Free State. This love sprang from very deep in his psyche (his 'deep heart's core.') It is also...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 9 Dec 2009 05:30:39 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What do you think is meant by the poem's words 'deep heart's core?']]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/lake-isle/q-and-a/what-do-you-think-meant-by-deep-hearts-core-122577</link>
        <description><![CDATA[What do you think is meant by the poem's words 'deep heart's core?']]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 9 Dec 2009 05:16:44 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[will there be entrance examinations held in 2010 in calcutta university...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[will there be entrance examinations held in 2010 in calcutta university for english honours for the admission in post graduation courses(M.A.)]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 3 Dec 2009 02:11:19 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Maybe you could post your question again with a little more detail? Then...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/lake-isle/q-and-a/what-concept-wyre-yests-poem-119627</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Maybe you could post your question again with a little more detail? Then we can help you. Did you mean the poem 'The Lake Isle of Inisfree?' Or did you mean the word 'gyre' which is an important theme in another of yeats poems as in:
'turning and turning in the widening gyre'     and
'the falcon cannot hear the falconer'
'things, fall apart, the centre cannot hold...'
These ideas are to do with force, centrifugal energy,chaos, anarchy in...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 02:00:40 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is the concept of wyre in Yeats poem?]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/lake-isle/q-and-a/what-concept-wyre-yests-poem-119627</link>
        <description><![CDATA[What is the concept of wyre in Yeats poem?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 22:47:24 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[One of Yeats's early poems, "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" seems to...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/lake-isle/q-and-a/what-his-thesis-426</link>
        <description><![CDATA[One of Yeats's early poems, "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" seems to suggest a thesis of peaceful independence attainable through a harmonious and near-ascetic identification with nature. The proposed journey to the lake-isle at the eastern end of Lough Gill in Country Sligo is an imaginative escape to a place of dreamy solitude of the poet's boyhood. Living all alone in the midst of nature where "peace comes dropping slow," living in the...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 10:44:36 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The main thesis (or main theme) of the poem "The Lake Isle of Innisfree"...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The main thesis (or main theme) of the poem "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" is about the author's dreams of returning back to the "peaceful" nature, to a place of deep relaxation and rehabilitation of the soul and the mental mind, and to escape from the chaotic and deeply corrupted civilization of the modern society, which global citizens pursuing material comforts and natural bodily needs using unscrupulous methods, to control their entire life,...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 09:04:47 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What species of heather grow on or around Innisfree, "heather island"...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/lake-isle/q-and-a/what-species-heather-grow-around-innisfree-heather-107749</link>
        <description><![CDATA[What species of heather grow on or around Innisfree, "heather island" near Sligo, Ireland?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 05:29:51 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[it is about the myth of heaven and death, about transportation from...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/lake-isle/q-and-a/what-does-mean-26889</link>
        <description><![CDATA[it is about the myth of heaven and death, about transportation from chaos to peace, perfection and solitue. Its power comes from the repetition of very few words.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:27:47 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Yes he is picturing the scene and hearing it in his imagination. The...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/lake-isle/q-and-a/where-does-writer-see-water-lapping-74573</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Yes he is picturing the scene and hearing it in his imagination. The alliteration in "lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore" brings the soft sound of gently lapping water into the line.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 09:20:09 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Very warm. Glowing with heat. I like the idea of the heather but as this...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/lake-isle/q-and-a/what-does-noon-purple-glow-mean-why-purple-77907</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Very warm. Glowing with heat. I like the idea of the heather but as this imagined scene is summertime (heather blooms later usually) I'm not sure if he is being as concrete as that. "Purple" as a colour has connotatins of royalty. So he's suggesting the richness and comfort he would experience in this idyllic location. Midnight is all a glimmer here in the Western Isles at midnight on a good summers day (Midnight at Innisfree would be the...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 09:17:22 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Yeats is altering both midnight and noon into eerie images. 


"There...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/lake-isle/q-and-a/what-does-noon-purple-glow-mean-why-purple-77907</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Yeats is altering both midnight and noon into eerie images. 


"There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow,
 

And evening full of the linnet's wings."


Here Yeats gives evening a "glimmer" which can be spooky since it is supposed to be dark at midnight.  He also has the sky full of wings of birds.  That's not natural for the night.  Birds are in flight during the daylight hours, not at night.  That would be more like bats...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 11:58:25 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What does '...and noon a purple glow' mean?  Why purple?]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/lake-isle/q-and-a/what-does-noon-purple-glow-mean-why-purple-77907</link>
        <description><![CDATA[What does '...and noon a purple glow' mean?  Why purple?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 22:01:27 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The answer to your question is found in the last stanza of the poem:

I...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/lake-isle/q-and-a/where-does-writer-see-water-lapping-74573</link>
        <description><![CDATA[The answer to your question is found in the last stanza of the poem:

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 gray,


I hear it in the deep heart's core.

The narrator, then, is not physically present on the isle in the lake at Innisfree. He goes there in his memory, longing "night and day" for the peace it represents. The...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 17:29:16 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In "The Lake Isle of Innisfree," where does the writer see the water...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/lake-isle/q-and-a/where-does-writer-see-water-lapping-74573</link>
        <description><![CDATA[In "The Lake Isle of Innisfree," where does the writer see the water lapping?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:50:50 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The speaker longs for the quiet solitude of nature.  Currently, the...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/lake-isle/q-and-a/what-does-speaker-mean-when-he-says-peace-comes-65733</link>
        <description><![CDATA[The speaker longs for the quiet solitude of nature.  Currently, the speaker lives in an urban setting (in the second to last line of the poem). He has been dreaming of going to such a place and being able to relax and enjoy his life, rather than scurry about like he does in his stressful city life.
This line just means that he will be able to relax and have peace.  This line gives action and/or power to the word "peace."  Normally, peace...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2009 06:30:43 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What does the speaker mean when he says "peace comes dropping slow..."?]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/lake-isle/q-and-a/what-does-speaker-mean-when-he-says-peace-comes-65733</link>
        <description><![CDATA[What does the speaker mean when he says "peace comes dropping slow..."?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 22:52:16 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Grace Nichols uses language to show how the "island man" is stuck in the...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/lake-isle/q-and-a/how-do-poets-use-language-structure-express-their-62071</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Grace Nichols uses language to show how the "island man" is stuck in the every day life of London, yet dreams each night about escaping to his island life.  In fact, she doesn't use any punctuation at all.  Some sentences are long, some are short.  But none have any periods or commas.  She does this perhaps to parallel the non-ending sentences to the island man's non-ending life of working in London, yet longing to be in the Caribbean.
In...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 5 Feb 2009 09:14:19 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[How do the poets use language and structure to express their feelings...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[How do the poets use language and structure to express their feelings about their islands?]]></description>
        <guid>http://www.enotes.com/lake-isle/q-and-a/how-do-poets-use-language-structure-express-their-62071</guid>
        <pubDate>Wed, 4 Feb 2009 08:28:29 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[This is one of my favorite poems!  The tone of this poem can be...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/lake-isle/group/discuss/yeats-lake-isle-innisfree-positive-oe-negativ-9289#3</link>
        <description><![CDATA[This is one of my favorite poems!  The tone of this poem can be interpreted in a few different ways.  Most would say it has a positive tone.  Some would say it is rather wistful.  I think it is somewhere in between, quite frankly.  The isle provides the narrator of the poem with a sense of tranquility and peace, things he does not have while he is in the city.  The narrator is commenting about this place and he appears to be longing for...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:09:41 PST</pubDate>
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