Innisfree Flashcards
1
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What is it about
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- 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’
2
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Stanza 1
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- 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
3
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Stanza 2
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- 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
4
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Stanza 3
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- 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
5
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I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore
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Alliteration
Assonance
- haunting, musical effect
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6
Q
Glimmer
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Onomatopoeia
Sounds like the way it’s said
7
Q
Peace come dropping slow, dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings.
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Repetition of dropping
Comparison and description of how peace feels on innisfree
8
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Midnights all a glimmer and noon, a purple glow and evening full of the linnets wings
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Hyperbole - all a glimmer, purple glow.
9
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Clay and wattle made Nine bean rows Bee loud glade Lake water lapping Glimmer Glow
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Sensuous - appealing to the senses