ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Answer: The poet is far away from the island of Innisfree in London. However, he hears not the sound of city traffic, but the lake water lapping against the shore with low sounds in his heart’s core.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -iii) ‘Lake water lapping with low sounds’: The waters and waves of the lake hit the shore of the island and make a pleasant and calming sound that the poet seems to enjoy a lot and is reminiscent of. These sounds suggest the raw natural presence of Innisfree and the poet’s connection to it.

Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -Ans-The poet is standing on the roadway or on the pavement grey in Innisfree. (c)What leads him to remember the lapping water? Ans-The sweet and gentle music made by placid waves of the lake striking softly against the shore of the island leads him to remember lapping water.