The lake isle of Innisfree

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1. “The Lake Isle of Innisfree” Poet: William Butler Yeats Welcome to Watch a Presentation on the poem-

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. About the Poem

3. An Image of Innisfree I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made Wattles

4. 9 Bean Rows, a Leelanau County farm market, grows strawberries, blueberries, blackberries, apples, raspberries, cherries, pumpkins, squash herbs and more. Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honeybee, And live alone in the bee-loud glade. A hive for the honeybee

5. Cricket A nd 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 evenings full of the linnet's wings. Linnet

6. Standing man on the roadway I will arise and go now, for always night and day I hear the lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore; While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavement grey, I hear it in the deep heart's core. Sound of falling lake water

7. Answer the following questions: What kind of place is Innisfree? Which are the rhyming words in the first stanza? What is the rhyming scheme of the poem? Which figures of speech are used in this poem? Homework

8. PRESENTED BY: Kaushik R Solanki TGT English JNV Banaskantha At: Dantiwada Gujarat