Innisfree

Question 1

What is it about

Answer 1

• WB Yeats living in London 1890 he passed a water display reminding him of innis free
• he felt home sick
• an escape and retreat to this place known as the ‘deep hearts core’

Question 2

Stanza 1

Answer 2

• The poet seems determined ‘I will arise and go now’
• He will built a ‘small cabin there’ ‘made from clay and wattle’
• This harks back to a simple time when man used hand for everything
• He will have ‘nine bean rows and a hive’
• when the poet says nine a specific number this tells us he has thought of going there many times
• Self sufficient and live of nature
• He will be alone but there is a sense that he is not alone with his bee-loud glade

Question 3

Stanza 2

Answer 3

• he will have peace there
• ‘for peace come dropping slow…from the veils of the morning’
• Vivid imagery
• ‘veils’ covering the sky like a morning mist
• sound of crickets singing and the ‘linnets’s wings’
• ‘there a midnights all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow’ magical
• Assonance

Question 4

Stanza 3

Answer 4

• the poet is not there yet he is in London ‘on the pavements grey’
• he wants to go but he can’t
• instead of hearing ‘lake water lapping’ he hears traffic and the hustle and bustle of daily life
• inner place for solitude and comfort

Question 5

I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore

Answer 5

Alliteration
Assonance
- haunting, musical effect
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Question 6

Glimmer

Answer 6

Onomatopoeia

Sounds like the way it’s said

Question 7

Peace come dropping slow, dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings.

Answer 7

Repetition of dropping

Comparison and description of how peace feels on innisfree

Question 8

Midnights all a glimmer and noon, a purple glow and evening full of the linnets wings

Answer 8

Hyperbole - all a glimmer, purple glow.

Question 9

Clay and wattle made
Nine bean rows
Bee loud glade 
Lake water lapping 
Glimmer 
Glow

Answer 9

Sensuous - appealing to the senses