{"id":660,"date":"2016-10-06T14:06:27","date_gmt":"2016-10-06T14:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/englishlitvictorianmodern\/?post_type=chapter&p=660"},"modified":"2016-10-06T14:06:27","modified_gmt":"2016-10-06T14:06:27","slug":"the-lake-isle-of-innisfree","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-englishlitvictorianmodern\/chapter\/the-lake-isle-of-innisfree\/","title":{"raw":"The Lake Isle of Innisfree","rendered":"The Lake Isle of Innisfree"},"content":{"raw":"

[footnote]Innisfree is a small island in the middle of Lough (Lake) Gill, near Sligo, the town in the northwest of Ireland, where Yeats spent many happy summers, holidaying with his mother\u2019s family.\u00a0He was living in London in 1888 when he wrote the poem.\u00a0The poem expresses the universal desire to \u201cget away from it all,\u201d to retreat from a busy life in the city and find a quiet haven, surrounded by nature\u2019s beauty.\u00a0Though one\u00a0of his\u00a0most famous poems, he, ironically, grew weary of reciting it at his lectures, so often was it requested.[\/footnote]\n\nI will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,\nAnd a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles[footnote]Thin branches woven together.[\/footnote]\u00a0made;\nNine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee,\nAnd live alone in the bee-loud glade.\n\nAnd I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,\nDropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings;\nThere midnight\u2019s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow,\nAnd evening full of the linnet\u2019s wings.\n\nI will arise and go now, for always night and day\nI hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;\nWhile I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey,\nI hear it in the deep heart\u2019s core.\n\n\u2014<\/b>\u00a01892.<\/p>","rendered":"

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I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
\nAnd a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles[2]<\/sup><\/a>\u00a0made;
\nNine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee,
\nAnd live alone in the bee-loud glade.<\/p>\n

And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,
\nDropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings;
\nThere midnight\u2019s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow,
\nAnd evening full of the linnet\u2019s wings.<\/p>\n

I will arise and go now, for always night and day
\nI hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;
\nWhile I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey,
\nI hear it in the deep heart\u2019s core.<\/p>\n

\u2014<\/b>\u00a01892.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t

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