THE LAKE ISLE OF INNISFREE

1. Research work – W B YEATS ( INTEL TAB ACTIVITY)

II. Learning Objective:

Analyze the theme and poetic devices.

III. Reference to Context

a. I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,

And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made:
Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee,
And live alone in the bee-loud glade.

1. What is the tone of the speaker?

2. What are the three things that the poet wants to do when he goes to Innisfree?
3. Explain ‘bee-loud glade’

b. I will arise and go now, for always night and day

I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;
While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey,
I hear it in the deep heart's core.

1. Identify any three figures of speech used in the above lines and explain them.
2. What does the poet hear in his ‘heart’s core’ even when he is far away from Innisfree?
3. What kind of a place is Innisfree? ( ( 50 words)

IV. REFLECTIONS (To be written in bullet points)

Do you think Innisfree is only a place , or a state of mind? What makes you feel so?