The Lake Isle Of Innisfree Summary

The Lake Isle Of Innisfree Summary

The first stanza opens abruptly and shows that the poet has a strong desire to go to the
beautiful and calm Isle of Innisfree in the Lake Lough Gill in the County Sligo in Ireland. He
declares that he will get up and leave for Innisfree where he will build for himself a small
cottage with clay and twisted sticks. He would like to be self- sufficient. So he imagines a
garden with exactly nine rows of beans and honey from his own honeycomb. He wants to
lead a solitary life with bees buzzing loudly in the open glade, far away from the madding
crowd.
The poet wants to go to the Isle of Innisfree because he believes that he will enjoy complete
peace on the beautiful island. Life there is calm and slow paced unlike the life in a city. In this
island, peace remains from morning till evening when the cricket sings. In Innisfree, morning
is calm, midnight is bright with the glimmer of the stars and moon and the noontime
/midday has a bright, purple glowing light. The evenings on the island are made
beautiful by the fluttering wings of the linnets.
The poet reiterates (repeats) his initial desire to go to the Isle of Innisfree because such is his
the nostalgia that he can hear the music produced by the waters of Innisfree all day and night.
When the poet stands on the cemented roads and cold, hard pavements in the midst of
traffic, he hears the sounds of the waves lapping on the shore, in the depths of his heart.

Summary Source:- English Notes