He desires to go back to the island and live a peaceful life as he hears the sound of water splashing on the shore all the time in his mind. The last stanza reflects the poets yearning to break the ties of mundane city-life and go back to Innisfree. All these would bring in profound contentment that the poet is desirous of. The evening sky would be filled with linnets intercepting each other in their last flight before settling down for the day. At night, the night sky full of twinkling stars would fill him with pleasure and the purple glow of the afternoon sun would spread an aura of tranquillity. He likens the process of meditative contentment with that of a peaceful morning, when the mist lifts slowly to reveal a morning with crickets chirping in a serene atmosphere. He says that peace seeps in slowly into our patient minds. In the second stanza, he speaks of spiritual fulfilment which comes through prolonged communion with nature. He wants to lead a solitary life in the cabin surrounded by meadows, and listen to the humming of bees which would create an atmosphere of peace and serenity. In this stanza he speaks of his physical needs which he would fulfil by nurturing nature with meditative labour. He also plans to plant seven rows of beans, and have a bee-hive for honey, which would help him to sustain. The poem starts with the poet’s declaration that he would return to Innisfree and build a simple cabin with clay and twisted sticks, or wattles. Yeats speaks of his nostalgia for Innisfree which he visited during his childhood. Yeats spent his summers near that place as a child, and was familiar with the surroundings. However, in reality, Lake Isle of Innisfree is an uninhabited island within Lough Gill, in Ireland. In the last poem he speaks of his yearnings to go back to the peaceful place away from the humdrum of city-life to lead life in solitude. Some of his famous poems are ‘The Second Coming’, ’Sailing to Byzanthium’, ‘The Stolen Child’, ’Easter 1916’ and ‘Lake Isle of Innisfree’. He moved to London when he was two, but spent much of his time in Siligo with his grandparents. He was born in Sandymouth, Dublin in Ireland. Yeats (1865- 1939) was an Irish poet, writer and a dramatist. William Butler Yeats Photo by Mike B About the poet – W.B.Yeats While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey, I hear the lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore I will arise and go now, for always night and day There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honeybee,Īnd I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slowĭropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,Īnd a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made:
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