Tuesday, January 14, 2014

Critically analyze the lyrical elements in Yeats' "The Lake Isle of Innisfree."

One of the key elements of this poem is the way that it
presents us with an impossibly idyllic dreams of a person who is clearly stifled and in
danger of being suffocated by the urban sprawl in which he lived. We can see in
Innisfree a symbol of the kind of relationship with nature and example of natural beauty
that so many industrial-era Victorians longed for. Note the way that the speaker's dream
is presented as being characterised by peace and the transcendent beauty of the island.
The speaker desires a simple, solitary, peaceful and pastoral life on the island, in his
small cabin and with a description of his bean rows and a "hive for the honey bee." The
description of peace coming "dropping slow" as if it were honey falling from a spoon,
combines with examples of imagery such as "There midnight's all a glimmer" to create a
lyrical landscape that is almost dream-like in its beauty. This lyric therefore
celebrates the union with nature that man can have which is necessary for his
existence.

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