2. This poem is a wonderful creation of the poet William Butler
Yeats. The poet used to live at Innisfree during his childhood. The
lyric explores the poet’s wish for the peace and tranquility of
Innisfree. “The Lake Isle of Innisfree” expresses the idea that nature
provides an inherently restorative place to which human beings can
go to escape the chaos and corrupting influences of civilization. In
his autobiography, Yeats writes that his poem was influenced by his
reading of American writer Henry David Thoreau’s Walden (1854),
which describes Thoreau’s experiment of living alone in a small hut
in the woods on Walden Pond, outside Concord,
Massachusetts. “The Lake Isle of Innisfree” is written with
an abab rhyme scheme corresponding to each of the three quatrains
in the poem, which are defined as a stanza composed of four lines
which may or may not have a set line length. Also prevalent is the
use of alliteration and assonance, both of which emphasize the
musical tone and rhythm of the piece.
4. 9 Bean Rows, a Leelanau County farm
market, grows
strawberries, blueberries, blackberries, A hive for the honeybee
apples, raspberries, cherries, pumpkins
, squash herbs and more.
6. Standing man on Sound of falling
the roadway lake water
Water falling on ocean rocks sweet sound..3gp
7. Answer the following questions:
1. What kind of place is Innisfree?
2. Which are the rhyming words in the first stanza?
3. What is the rhyming scheme of the poem?
4. Which figures of speech are used in this poem?
