English Literature / Unit 16 ENL 1508 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Early Yeats: "The Lake Isle of Innisfree"
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The idea
"The Lake Isle of Innisfree," written in eighteen eighty-eight while Yeats was homesick in London's Fleet Street, opens, "I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree," imagining a cabin and life alone "in the bee-loud glade" on an island in Lough Gill, in Sligo.
In practice
A homesick dream of an island.
Where people slip
Early Yeats is musical and romantic.
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