The Lake Isle Of Innisfee - William Butler Yeats

Question 1

“I will arise and go now, and go to innisfree.”

Answer 1

I - alone
Go - determination + repetition adds to the rhythm of the poem + links to start of poem.
Alliteration - adds determination + creates soft and gentle rhythm and mood.

Question 2

Mood/tone of poem

Answer 2

Relaxed, gentle, peaceful, dreamlike, determination.

Question 3

How rhythm created

Answer 3

1 - rhythm
2 - alliteration (creates soft and gentle rhythm and mood)
3 - repetition (links to start of poem)
4 - meter

Question 4

“Nine bean rows will I have there, a hive for the honeybee,

And live alone in the bee-loud glade.”

Answer 4

Alliteration - idyllic, perfect, tranquil, - imagining rural Ireland - alliteration creates soft and gentle rhythm and mood.

Question 5

2nd stanza - uses “peace” twice

Answer 5

This creates repetition for emphasis on rhythm - repetition links to start of poem.

Question 6

“Noon a purple glow”

Answer 6

Visually stunning (imagery)

Question 7

“Cricket sings;” “linnet’s wings.”

“I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;”

Answer 7

He appeals to our sense of sound - alliteration (creates soft and gentle rhythm) - sibilance (gives smooth flow to poem)
- regularity of the lake water lapping is like a heat beat - it is emphasised by the regular rhyming scheme.
I - reminds us he is alone and its personal.

Question 8

“I will arise a go now, for always night and day.”

Answer 8

Determination connects the poem - the “I” reminds us the narrator is alone and its personal - repetition used links to start of poem.

Question 9

“While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements gray,”

Answer 9

I - reminds us he is alone and its personal - the penultimate line jolts us back into the drag of reality - twist in the poem.

Question 10

“I hear it in the deep heart’s core.”

Answer 10

Emphatic last line - “strong/no doubt”