CBSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE LITERATURE

Detailed explanation-1: -Ans. Innisfree is a simple island in the lake where the poet has spent his childhood days. The poet is in search of peace and calmness which the Lake Isle of Innisfree can provide him. The environment is natural and peaceful and the poet desires to visit this island.

Detailed explanation-2: -Lake Isle of Innisfree is an uninhabited island within Lough Gill, in Ireland, near which Yeats spent his summers as a child. Yeats describes the inspiration for the poem coming from a “sudden” memory of his childhood while walking down Fleet Street in London in 1888.

Detailed explanation-3: -In Innisfree, the poet will live in a cabin made of clay and wattles. He will also have nine bean-rows and a beehive. He will get the opportunity to live in the glade with the sound of bees. He will certainly live in peace because it will drop from the veils of the morning where he can hear the songs of cricket.

Detailed explanation-4: -He describes peace as “dropping slow, ” “from the veils of… morning to…the cricket[s].” Yeats relates peace to morning dew. In the glade, he will be surrounded by it, from the leaves on the trees to the grass on the ground, “where the cricket sings.”

Detailed explanation-5: -Answer: (a) The sound of the lake water lapping against the shore of Innisfree. Question 2. What beautiful sight will he get to see there? (a) The glimmer of midnight stars.