SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS
Q1 What kind of place is Innisfree? Think about:
Ans. Innisfree is a lake island. It is a peaceful place where the cricket sings. The poet wants to
visit this place in order to enjoy peace during his boyhood.
Q2. The three things the poet wants to do when he would go back there.
Ans. The poet will build a small cabin.
He will have three nine bean rows.
He will live alone in the bee loud glade.
Q3 what he hears and sees there and its effect on him?
Ans. There at Innisfree the poet hears as well as sees the cricket singing. The evening is full of
linnet’s birds. As the poet is residing there round the clock he enjoys the purple rays of the sun
in the noon.
Q4: What is the tone of the poem?
Ans. The poem has a very calm and relaxing tone. The reader may very well imagine a person
physically going to this place called Innisfree but the narrator of the poem is visiting in his
imagination. It helps him to relax and escape the rush of modern living.
Q5: Describe the person, the place or the thing brought vividly to life by the poet.
Ans. The Lake Isle of Innisfree by W. B. Yeats vividly describes an island in the lake of
Innisfree. The island is an incredibly peaceful place. The island is also a place of great natural
beauty. Yeats describes many different aspects of its appeal, from the various birds and insects
to the striking light at different times of day. This is a landscape that has not been damaged or
diminished by human interference.
Q6: Why does the poet want to go to Innisfree?
Ans. The poet wants to go Innisfree in search of peace. He does not like the noisy place as
London is. He wants to live in a place which. The poet craves for some peace and hence he
wants to go to Innisfree. There he wants to make a small cabin and grow beans. He wants to
live there alone.
Q7: How is the city life different from the life at the Lake of Innisfree?
Ans. The poet does not like the city life. The pavements are dull and grey. There is chaos all
around. But there is nature’s beauty all around in Innisfree. It is a dream place for the poet
which exists in reality. There is a perfect harmony on the island between the plants and the
weather.
Q8:Briefly describe one major theme of the poem “The Lake Isle of Innisfree”.
Ans. A major theme in “The Lake Isle of Innisfree”, is nature versus civilization. What we
value in life is often the exact opposite of what civilization brings with it. Nature allows us to
explore the various forms of life but civilization has certain set rules with which we have to
abide.
