Innisfree Flashcards

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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’
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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
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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
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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
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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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Glimmer

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Onomatopoeia

Sounds like the way it’s said

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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

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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.

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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

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