Chepter -8

The lake isle of innsfree

Important Questions and Answers

Q.1. I will arise and go now..

Who is the 'T' here and where does he want to go?

Answer: The 'l' here is the poet, W.B. Yeats He wants to go to innisfree.

Q.2. What is Innisfree?

Answer: Innisfree is an island. To the poet it is a place of natural beauty.

Q.3. Of what the poet wants to build his cabin?

Answer: The poet wants to build his cabin of clay and wattles.

Q.4. How does the poet want to live at Innisfree?

Answer: The poet wants to live alone at innisfree.

Q.6. What does the post hope to get at Innisfree?

Answer: At Innisfree the poet hopes to get some peace.

Q.6. How are the midnights and noon at Innisfree?

Answer. The midnight at innisfree is full of faint line. The noontime there is full of purple glow.

Q.7. Why does the poet want to go to Innisfree?

Answer: The poet wants to go to Innisfree because he hopes to get some peace there.

Q.8. What will he grow in Innisfree?

Answer: In Innisfree the poet will grow nine rows of beams. He will also keep a hive of bees.
Q.9.(a) Who is poet of the poem "The Lake Isle of Innisfree'?

Answer: William Butler Yeats is the poem 'The Lake Isle of innisfree".

Q.9.(b) How is the evening at Innisfree?

Answer. The evening at Innisfree is full of linnet's wings

Q.10. What does the poet hear always day and night?
Answer: Always day and night the poet hears the low sound of the water lapping by the
shore

Q.11. "I hear it in the deep heart's core" What does the poet hear in his 'heart's core?

Answer: The poet hears in his heart's core the low sound of the lake water lapping by the
share

Q.12. Why, do you think, does the poet want to have nine bean rows and a hive?

Answer. The poet wants to have nine rows of beans for his food and the hive for the honey
bee

Q.13. Where, do you think, is the poet when he wants to go to Innisfree?

Answer. The poet is standing on the pavement of a grey city and recollects the sights and
sounds of peaceful Innisfree.

Q.14. Why does the poet want to build a cabin at Innisfree?

Answer: The poet wants to build a cabin at Innisfree because he hopes to live there a plain
life like that of a rustic. He wants to go away from the artificial city life in search of peace.

TEXTUAL QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

Q.1. What kind of place is Innisfree?

Ans:- Innisfree is a lake island. It is a peaceful place where the crickets sing. The poet wants
to visit this place in order to enjoy peace during his boyhood.

(i) the three things the poet wants to do when he goes back there. (stanza-l)

Ans. The poet will build a small cabin. He will have three nine beannows. He will live alone in
the bee glade.

(ii) what he hears and sees there and its effect on him? (stanza-ll)

Ans. There at Innisfree the poet hears as well as sees the crickets singing. The evening is
full of the linnets birds. As the poet is residing there round the clock. He enjoys the purple
rays of the sun at noon.

(iii) what he hears in his "heart's core" even when he is far away from Innisfree? (stanza-IIII)
Ans. The poet hears in the deep heart's core the low sound of water flowing towards the
shore when he is far away from Innisfree.

Q.2. By now you may have concluded that Innisfree is a simple, natural place full of beauty
and peace. How does the poet contrast it with where he now stands?

Ans. The poet is much attracted towards the calm, beautiful and natural place of innisfree.
There he visits the spot, to give him peace of mind.

The poet is to be there round the clock. There he will see flowing water of the lake that
dashed against the store. He contrasts the same when he is standing either on the road side
or on the pavement. He feels it in the case of his heart.

Q.3. Do you think Innisfree is only a place or a state of mind? Does the poet actually miss
the place of his boyhood days?

Ans. Innisfree is a simple, beautiful and a natural beautiful place where the poet goes to
attain peace. The poet doesn't miss the place during his boyhood. There he spent a lot of
time when he was a boy.

II. 1. Look at the words the poet uses to describe what he sees and nears at Innisfree:

(i) Bee-loud glade.

Ans. The poet hears and sees the bees busy at their beehive. They go on buzzing and
collecting the honey in their hive. He hears their sounds and witnesses them at work.

(ii) Evening full of the linnet's wings.

Ans:- When the evening starts, there appear many linnet birds in the sky. They fly in the sky
and their wings flutter there. The poet hears their sounds and views them. The atmosphere
remains busy.

(iii) Lake water lapping with low sounds. What pictures do these words bring to your mind?

Ans:- 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 bruising against the land.

2. Look at these words:

peace comes dropping slow

Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings. What do these words
mean to you? What do you think 'comes dropping slowly.......... from the veils of the
morning? What does" where the cricket sings" mean?
Ans. "Veils of the morning' means the cover of fog that hangs like a veil on the landscape of
Innisfree. Crickets sing in the morning from under the cover of fog. Peace will come slowly
like drops of water. The terms collectively mean the peaceful morning atmosphere that
prevails at Innisfree.