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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
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
Yeats paints a fairly clear picture of the nature of “The Lake Isle of Innisfree.” This place is a small green island that is surrounded by relatively peaceful lake waters, as opposed to the...
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The Lake Isle of Innisfree
At first glance, these two poems and their poets make an unlikely pairing and are quite dissimilar. In “The Lake Isle of Innisfree,” Yeats describes his yearning to move to a favorite island...
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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 stanza of his poem “The Lake Isle of Innisfree,” William Butler Yeats describes how he will go to Innisfree. He is imagining life on the small island named Innisfree as an escape...
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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
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
According to the author of this poem, William Butler Yeats, this poem is autobiographical, so we know the speaker is the poet himself. Yeats explained that when he was in his early twenties, he was...
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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
The speaker (Yeats) begins by announcing his intent to rise and leave to go to "Innisfree." Over the course of the poem, it becomes clear that he is, at this point, making the journey in his mind....
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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
The first line establishes that the speaker is not at Innisfree. In this line, he expresses his wish to go there: either in actuality or in his mind. Given his peaceful, idealistic description of...
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The Lake Isle of Innisfree
Yearning for peace in the company of nature is the most powerful thought in the poem. The poet is a man of city. What troubles him in the city is not specified. However, it’s understood that the...
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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
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
During his childhood, Yeats with his family frequented the Isle of Innisfree, which is an uninhabited island located within Lough Gill in County Sligo in Ireland. In summer, when he would visit the...
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The Lake Isle of Innisfree
Though many schools of literary criticism could be applied to Yeats' "The Lake Isle of Innisfree," I'd like to focus on one approach in particular: ecocriticism. Ecocriticism is a critical approach...
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The Lake Isle of Innisfree
The world the poet imagines is very simple and small and it would be located on the island of Innisfree in Ireland. It would have only one 'cabin' and the only inhabitant would be the poet himself....
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William Butler Yeats
The character sketch of Peter Gilligan from the poem “The Ballad of Father Gilligan” by William Butler Yeats includes the following: Father Peter Gilligan is elderly. He is always weary and is...
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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
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 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
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
For Yeats, this tranquil, natural part of his childhood remembrances of an innocent Ireland are a refuge, and in first stanza he is wishfully conjuring a peaceful life, perhaps a kind of...
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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
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
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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William Butler Yeats
In order to compare and contrast William Butler Yeats' "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" (to be known as LII) and "The Wild Swans at Coole" (to be known as WSC) rhyme, meter, poetic devices, and meaning...
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The Lake Isle of Innisfree
One of the most significant aspects of this poem is the way that it uses powerful images to build up a picture of the healing, calming influence of nature on the soul. This is after all the...
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The Lake Isle of Innisfree
The significance of the title of this poem lies in the way that it captures and inspires the imagination, allowing the reader to summon up an image of pastoral beauty which stands in direct...
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The Lake Isle of Innisfree
The speaker of the poem longs for a simpler time because he describes a cabin on the island that is made of clay and sticks, as houses were made in earlier times. And a small cabin build there,...
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The Lake Isle of Innisfree
Sometimes being simple is artful. By keeping the poem’s structure and diction simple, Yeats was able to create for the reader the kind of simplicity he is describing. The poem is about finding...
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The Lake Isle of Innisfree
The rhythms of Yeats’ poems are simple in one respect, but they imitate the thought process of the first-person narrator. In this case, for example, the reminiscences and dreams of the narrator...
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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
Okay, here is a quick answer. The poem reminded me of how I myself have often felt living in a big city and being subjected to all the stress that goes with such an environment. It reminded me of...
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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 o writing. So it is with Yeats's The Lake Isle of Innisfree, a...
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The Lake Isle of Innisfree
Your question seems to be referring to another poem by Yeats, "The Stolen Child," which has the following refrain: Come away, O human child! To the waters and the wild With a faery, hand in hand,...
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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
The life at Innisfree describe by the narrator of Yeats' poetry is one which resolutely turns its back on modern urban life and returns to a simpler rural life of the sort that all people had...
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The Lake Isle of Innisfree
Yeat's "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" is an example of the nostaglic and pastoral impulse of the Celtic Twilight, a poetic movement which contrasted a notion of a spiritualized Celtic tradition,...
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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
I definitely agree with the initial statement you give in your question. It is clear that this poem is all about imagining a peaceful existence where the narrator is able to live in harmony with...
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The Lake Isle of Innisfree
william butler yeats was and irish poet and playwright. He was one of the foremost figures in 20th century literature. He has also served as an Irish Senator. In 1923 he was awarded the Nobel Prize...
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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
One of the reasons why this poem is so famous and has been such an enduring success is the way in which it uses assonance and alliteration to create haunting sound effects, resulting in a poem...
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The Lake Isle of Innisfree
Let us remember that imagery is defined as the creation of pictures through the use of words. The best imagery is created through the incorporation of as many of the five sense as possible into the...
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The Lake Isle of Innisfree
One of the key elements of this poem is the way that it presents us with an impossibly idyllic dreams of a person who is clearly stifled and in danger of being suffocated by the urban sprawl in...
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The Lake Isle of Innisfree
Your original question asked more than one question, which is against enotes regulations, so I have had to edit it to focus on just one poem. Please remember that you are not allowed to ask...
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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,"...
