The Lake Isle of Innisfree Notes Poem 4 Class 9 English

Notes For All Chapters English Beehive Class 9

Introduction

• This famous poem shows the poet’s strong wish for the peace and calm of Innisfree.
• Innisfree is a place where the poet spent a lot of time as a boy.
• The poem is a lyric (a short poem that expresses personal feelings).

The Poem: The Lake Isle of Innisfree

• Poet: William Butler Yeats
• The poem describes the poet’s dream to go to Innisfree, build a simple life there, and enjoy its natural beauty and peace. He contrasts it with his busy city life.

Stanza 1

I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made: Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honeybee, And live alone in the bee-loud glade.

• Explanation in Easy English: The poet decides to get up and go to Innisfree right away. He plans to build a small house (cabin) using clay and twisted sticks (wattles). He will grow nine rows of beans, keep a beehive for honeybees, and live by himself in a noisy open space full of bee sounds (bee-loud glade).

Stanza 2

And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings; There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evenings full of the linnet’s wings.

• Explanation in Easy English: He will find peace there, which comes slowly like drops (dropping slow). It falls from the morning mists (veils of the morning) down to where crickets make sounds. At midnight, everything shines softly (glimmer), noon has a purple light (purple glow), and evenings are filled with the wings of linnets (small birds).

Stanza 3

I will arise and go now, for always night and day I hear the lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore; While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey, I hear it in the deep heart’s core.

• Explanation in Easy English: He wants to go now because he always hears the soft sound of lake water hitting the shore (lapping with low sounds), day and night. Even when he is on the road or grey city sidewalks (pavements grey), he hears this sound deep inside his heart (heart’s core).