CBSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE LITERATURE

Detailed explanation-1: -Answer. I hear lake water lapping” contains onomatopoeia in describing a sound with a word, “lapping.” Imagery is also used in, “I hear it in the deep heart’s core."

Detailed explanation-2: -Ans: When the poet is far away from Innisfree he hears the sound of the lake water washing the shore in his “heart’s core”.

Detailed explanation-3: -Answer: Where is the speaker when he hears lake water lapping? Answer: The speaker says he is standing “on the roadway, or on the pavements grey”. Yeats was walking down the Strand in London, when a fountain in a shop reminded him of lake water lapping against the shore at Innisfree.

Detailed explanation-4: -The “lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore” is both a memory and a call to the speaker. He has been there in his past, but now as a city dweller, he misses the quiet sound of the lake’s waves gently brushing against the land.