He Lake Isle of Innisfree
The Lake Isle of Innisfree
Sometimes, people want to go, people want to go where they can see stars dangling from the sky and count them until there’s no end to it. They also want to hear the sounds of crickets and be able to hear the sound of water drops, and that be their lullaby taking them to the soft sleep. As William Butler Yeats stated in his poem called “ The Lake Isle of Innisfree”, he evokes the reader’s emotion by depicting the images of the innocent nature. What Yeats is trying to inform us through his poem is that he is tired of city life and have a rest and peace with the nature.
Definitely through out his poem, you can assume that Yeats was tired of city life or at least an environment that he was at the moment. Yeats constantly uses phrases like “ I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree”. Even if you don’t know where Innisfree is, the lines like “I will arise and go” is big clue for the reader to actually understand that he is not happy at where he was. If Yeats was truly satisfied with the environment, he won’t use such anaphora which states the line such as,“ I will arise and go now”. Yeats, by stating such line captures the eerie feeling, causing the reader to feel like he is tamed to a place and that Innisfree is so close but he can not reach it.
Such lines like, “ morning to where the cricket sings” exemplify the personification of nature communicating with the reader. For the reason, the reader can clearly identify that Yeats is not living with the nature. Though, Yeats did not specifically stated where he was living, the best answer that the reader can come up with is probably that he is living in a city life. The first opposite element that might pop in your head when you think about nature is probably is a city. And most likely, Yeats wrote this poem where it was crowded,