He can even build a cabin and stay on the island much as Thoreau, the American Transcendentalist, lived at Walden Pond. He can escape the noise of the city and be lulled by the "lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore." On this small island, he can return to nature by growing beans and having bee hives, by enjoying the "purple glow" of heather at noon, the sounds of birds' wings, and, of course, the bees. The poem expresses the speaker's longing for the peace and tranquility of Innisfree while residing in an urban setting. The twelve-line poem is divided into three quatrains and is an example of Yeats's earlier lyric poems. A couple of years later I could not have written that first line with its conventional archaism-"Arise and go"-nor the inversion of the last stanza." Analysis I had begun to loosen rhythm as an escape from rhetoric and from that emotion of the crowd that rhetoric brings, but I only understood vaguely and occasionally that I must for my special purpose use nothing but the common syntax. From the sudden remembrance came my poem "Innisfree," my first lyric with anything in its rhythm of my own music. He writes, "I had still the ambition, formed in Sligo in my teens, of living in imitation of Thoreau on Innisfree, a little island in Lough Gill, and when walking through Fleet Street very homesick I heard a little tinkle of water and saw a fountain in a shop-window which balanced a little ball upon its jet, and began to remember lake water. Yeats describes the inspiration for the poem coming from a "sudden" memory of his childhood while walking down Fleet Street in London in 1888. Lake Isle of Innisfree is an uninhabited island within Lough Gill, in Ireland, near which Yeats spent his summers as a child. It received critical acclaim in the United Kingdom and France. "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" exemplifies the style of the Celtic Revival: it is an attempt to create a form of poetry that was Irish in origin rather than one that adhered to the standards set by English poets and critics.
It was reprinted in The Countess Kathleen and Various Legends and Lyrics in 1892 and as an illustrated Cuala Press Broadside in 1932. " The Lake Isle of Innisfree" is a twelve-line poem comprising three quatrains, written by William Butler Yeats in 1888 and first published in the National Observer in 1890. While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey, I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore I will arise and go now, for always night and day There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, Nine bean rows will I have there, a hive for the honey bee,Īnd I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,ĭropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings
I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,Īnd a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made
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