W.B Yeats - The Lake Isle of Innisfree

Question 1

Themes

Answer 1

Escapism

Question 2

Poetic Techniques

Answer 2

wistful and idyllic tone

meter of the poem puts the reader in almost a hypnotic trance.

Question 3

Poetic Devices

Answer 3

.Yeats uses poetic devices such as repetition (‘I will arise and go now ,and go to Innisfree’ and ‘And I shall have some peace there ,for peace/comes dropping slow’) and words with long vowel sounds (‘arise’, ‘go’ , ‘now’, ‘play’, ‘bee’, ‘Innisfree’) to create a rhythmic beat that soothes the reader

Question 4

Imagery

Answer 4

‘evening full of linnet’s wings’

‘lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore’

Question 5

‘While I stand on the roadway or on the pavements grey/ I hear it in the deep heart’s core’.

Answer 5

love for Innisfree