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The Lake Isle of Innisfree
In the first stanza of "The Lake Isle of Innisfree," the poet says that he hopes to have nine bean-rows and a hive for the honey-bee, so he can live alone in the bee-loud glade. Despite the noise...
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The Lake Isle of Innisfree
To me, the most serene image in the first two stanzas of "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" by William Butler Yeats is the "[midnight] all a glimmer". The calm and peace of nighttime alone with the...
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The Lake Isle of Innisfree
In the first stanza, Yeats refers to "the bee-loud glade," mentioning without quite describing the sound of bees on the lake isle after a succession of visual images. Then, in the second stanza,...
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The Lake Isle of Innisfree
The speaker says that, on the lake isle of Innisfree, peace will come "dropping slow," "Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings." This suggests that the calm and...
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The Lake Isle of Innisfree
In poetry, anaphora is typically defined as the repetition of a word or group of words at the beginning of lines. It is classified as a kind of refrain. In terms of grammar, anaphora is typically...
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The Lake Isle of Innisfree
In William Butler Yeats’ poem “The Lake Isle of Innisfree” he speaks of the solitary contentment and “peace” he feels when he thinks of the small lake island. On the island, he is able to...
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The Lake Isle of Innisfree
In the first line of the poem, the persona or speaker expresses a determination more than a desire. The speaker states, “I will arise and go.” The destination given is Innisfree, which the...
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The Lake Isle of Innisfree
The roadway and the pavement in Yeats's poem can be understood in two ways when looking at the context of the entire work. In "The Lake Isle of Innisfree," Yeats writes about a small cabin...
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The Lake Isle of Innisfree
Yeats creates such peaceful imagery in this poem. It is calm, still, and serene. A little cabin sits isolated, surrounded by nature. I especially love the imagery of the early morning, when "peace...
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The Lake Isle of Innisfree
The beautiful poem "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" by William Butler Yeats describes a daydream that the poet has while living in the midst of a city. He envisions living in solitude and building a...
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The Lake Isle of Innisfree
The poem "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" by William Butler Yeats is the daydream of a city-dweller for a quiet life on a remote island. He would build a cabin, plant beans, and keep bees. Instead of...
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The Lake Isle of Innisfree
The poem's speaker will find peace for himself on the isle (small island) of Innisfree, which is in the middle of a lake. He will build a small cabin there, where he will live alone, plant nine...
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The Lake Isle of Innisfree
What the speaker "hears" in his deep heart's core is the sound of the lake water lapping against the shores of the lake isle of Innisfree. This line shows—or suggests—that the isle home he...
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The Lake Isle of Innisfree
The poet William Butler Yeats's last name rhymes with hates. You can listen to Yeats pronounced on the youtube link cited below. William Butler Yeats is generally regarded as one of the finest...
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The Lake Isle of Innisfree
Even if the reader doesn't know that the Lake Isle of Innisfree is an uninhabited island that lies within a large lake in County Sligo, Ireland, he or she can easily imagine what it is like from...
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The Lake Isle of Innisfree
The poet wants to build a little cabin. He wants to grow a small garden and keep bees. He wants to live alone and listen to the quiet and the sounds of nature, especially the sound of the water....
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The Lake Isle of Innisfree
In the poem "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" by William Butler Yeats, an anonymous narrator relates what appears to be a recurrent daydream. He imagines living on the isle of Innisfree and longs for a...
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The Lake Isle of Innisfree
William Butler Yeats wrote the poem "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" about a pleasant island he remembered from his youth. In the poem, the poet imagines leaving the city and going to live in nature on...
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The Lake Isle of Innisfree
In this poem, the speaker wishes to go to Innisfree to obtain the peace and solitary pleasures of life. This place is the setting where Yeats spent his childhood years. Now situated in the...
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The Lake Isle of Innisfree
To grasp the full comparison, you have to back up a line: And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings. So...
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The Lake Isle of Innisfree
One doesn't normally associate peace and action—be it "dropping" or anything else. Yet in this case, the line "peace comes dropping slow" indicates that, for the speaker, peace is not simply an...
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The Lake Isle of Innisfree
One of the best things about studying classic literature is that the themes found therein apply as much today as they did at the time of writing. So it is with Yeats's "The Lake Isle of Innisfree,"...
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The Lake Isle of Innisfree
The speaker of the poem fantasizes about leading a life of quiet repose in the wilderness. At the time when Yeats wrote "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" he was heavily influenced by Thoreau's Walden,...
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The Lake Isle of Innisfree
In William Butler Yeats's retrospective poem “The Lake Isle of Innisfree,” the speaker longs for a place to quiet his mind. The poem was written when Yeats was living in London, but his heart...
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The Lake Isle of Innisfree
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...
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The Lake Isle of Innisfree
In his autobiography, Yeats wrote of "The Lake Isle of Innisfree": I had still the ambition, formed in Sligo in my teens, of living in imitation of Thoreau on Innisfree . . . and when walking...
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The Lake Isle of Innisfree
These two poems by William Butler Yeats are perfect examples of his early tributes to his native country, Ireland, in which he reminisces about his childhood memories and subtly laments the loss of...
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The Lake Isle of Innisfree
W.B. Yeat’s beautiful poem, ”The Lake Isle of Innisfree, ” is based on an actual experience. When Yeats was a child, his father read Henry David Thoreau’s Walden to him. Yeats so loved...
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The Lake Isle of Innisfree
Yeats does not tell us specifically where he is standing at that moment. Our only clue comes in the second to last line of the poem, which reads "While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements...
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The Lake Isle of Innisfree
The quick answer to this question: Nature! "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" by Yeats juxtaposes the place the poem is describing—an idyllic place immersed in nature—versus the reality of where the...
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The Lake Isle of Innisfree
In his poem "The Lake Isle of Innisfree," Yeats imagines a peaceful, removed life on an island. He imagines constructing a simple cabin made of "clay and wattles" and planting beans and having a...
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The Lake Isle of Innisfree
Both “The Lake Isle of Innisfree” (William Butler Yeats) and “Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802” (William Wordsworth) describe beautiful and peaceful scenes involving...
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The Lake Isle of Innisfree
The thing that the poet finds so attractive about Lake Isle of Innisfree is its promise of peace: And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the...
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The Lake Isle of Innisfree
Normally one needs to be careful not to attribute the words of a poem to the poet's own feelings because the poet could be writing in the voice of a "persona," a character whose feelings he or she...
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The Lake Isle of Innisfree
Innisfree is a little island in a lake near the town of Sligo, on the north west coast of Ireland. When Yeats was a boy, he spent his summers in Sligo and sometimes rowed out to the island. As an...
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The Lake Isle of Innisfree
Let us remind ourselves that imagery is creating verbal pictures through the use of words that appeal to as many of the senses as possible to try and help us imagine the scene that the author or...
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The Lake Isle of Innisfree
In this poem by W.B. Yeats, the speaker declares his intention to go to Innisfree and build for himself a "small cabin" from natural materials, "clay and wattles." It is clear that the speaker...
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The Lake Isle of Innisfree
William Butler Yeats is perhaps Ireland's most famous poet, and is indeed considered one of the greatest poets of the 20th century. His subject matter embraced a number of topics, including love,...
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The Lake Isle of Innisfree
Well, there are plenty of meanings that this beautiful and excellent poem could be argued to be trying to convey. People have variously argued that this poem is about the beauty of transcendent...
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The Lake Isle of Innisfree
When Yeats chooses to use “in the deep heart’s core” instead of “in the core of my heart,” the speaker is distancing the “peace” he feels from himself. This reinforces the idea that...
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The Lake Isle of Innisfree
Hyperbole is not usually the first word one associates with "The Lake Isle of Innisfree," but if we understand hyperbole to mean not only exaggeration, but "claims [that are] not meant to be taken...
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The Lake Isle of Innisfree
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...
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The Lake Isle of Innisfree
The speaker in Butler's "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" (1892) is clearly in the midst of an urban environment as he thinks about Innisfree: While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements...
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The Lake Isle of Innisfree
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...
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The Lake Isle of Innisfree
This poem is about a man, overwhelmed with urban life, who dreams of going back to nature in order to find some peace. The man will build a small cabin there (line 2) and grow some beans (line 4)....
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The Lake Isle of Innisfree
The cabin on the lake symbolizes the simple life, a life free of distraction and troubles. Symbolism is an object that has a meaning larger than itself. Just as the cabin is simple, “of clay...
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The Lake Isle of Innisfree
The poem appeals to the senses to help you appreciate the peaceful nature of the place described. In the beginning, the island is described and the speaker says he will build a house “of clay...
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The Lake Isle of Innisfree
In William Butler Yeats' poem "The Lake Isle of Innisfree," the speaker is in the city, "stand[ing] on ... the pavements gray," but is imagining his favorite place, which he calls Innisfree. The...
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The Lake Isle of Innisfree
In all three stanzas, the speaker begins with the claim that he "will" or "shall" go to Innisfree, but it is only in the third stanza that he shifts to the present tense. He says "I hear the lake...
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The Lake Isle of Innisfree
[eNotes editors are only permitted to answer one question per posting. If you have additional questions, please post them separately.] In William Butler Yeat's poem, "The Lake Isle of Innisfree,"...