The Lake Isle of Innisfree - 1444 Words

William Butler Yeats The Lake Isle of Innisfree â€Å"The Lake Isle of Innisfree† is a modernist poem published in Yeats’s second volume of poetry, entitled â€Å"The Rose† (1893) and, although simple in form and imagery, it has managed to earn its place as one of his great literary achievements and one of his most enduring. The poem represents a nostalgic description of a concrete, geographical place, the lake isle of Innisfree, which the poet manages to transform into a magical landscape, full of symbols and beautiful elements of nature. The imagery of the poem creates an atmosphere of melancholy, due to the many references to a faraway, idyllic place, but also a feeling of hope and†¦show more content†¦This image proves Yeats’s ability to create a very suggestive literary painting which appeals to almost all the senses, giving great power to the simplest words. What draws attention to this first stanza is the way in which â€Å"the provisional nature of Yeats’s verb choice, established in the first â€Å"will arise† and extending throughout the stanza, establishes a crucial point of access for the reader. The speaker â€Å"will† build a small cabin and â€Å"will† have nine bean-rows upon his arrival at the island. Since the ordering of new life at Innisfree has not yet occurred, Yeats allows his reader a participatory, or at least anticipatory, role in the various activities required to imagine living â€Å"alone in the bee-loud glade.† In this sense, Yeats joins the reader’s imagination and the speaker’s memory in the â€Å"going† to Innisfree, the â€Å"building† of the cabin, and the â€Å"making† of the clay and wattle foundation.†(Peter J. Capuano, 148). The second stanza describes the feeling of peace associated with this magical place. Serenity comes slowly, in a realm where time seems frozen. The colors that the author uses to paint the sky at Innisfree in this stanza come to underline once again how special this place is in the speaker’s mind. All of them seem to be inverted: the metaphor† veils of the morning† gives the impression that morning, there, is dark, midnight is â€Å"all a -glimmer†, the evening is full of birds, while noon is a â€Å"purple glow†. ThisShow MoreRelatedThe Lake Isle Of Innisfree946 Words   |  4 PagesThe poems â€Å"The Lake Isle of Innisfree† by William Butler Yeats and â€Å"To Autumn† by John Keats have some similarities as well as some differences. Both authors talk about the sounds like water, animals, birds, and insects. Also, they talk about the scenery, for instance, sunset over the lake and trees full of fruits. But one author talks about movin g a place far from city and the other talks about how one season is different from the others. 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