Lake of Innisfree

Overall, for me this poem expresses the speaker's eagerness to live in Innisfree. Also, it expresses the idea that nature provides so human beings can go to escape the chaos of civilization, and he is ready to live in a voluntary separate, separated from the city, far away from the roadways and the pavements grey, and near to the idealized rural life. The speaker dreams of moving from the city to live alone on an island: (line 1 & 9) "I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree" speaker repeats that to emphasize his wish to travel to the island.

This poem focuses on Innisfree as a place for expel in the first stanza. The speaker wants to get away from people (line 4)"live alone" and he imagines himself living in a little island in a small cabin ( line 2) "and a small cabin build there".

In the second stanza, he imagines finding some peace there, (line 5) "and I shall have some peace there"; also he is concerned he will find harmony. He idealizes the landscape, as a place full of beauty and happiness:" the morning to where the cricket sings" or "and evening full of the linnet's wings". The speaker describes Innisfree as a simple, natural environment where he could build a cabin and live alone.

The Lake Isle of Innisfree has very strong countrified images used to portray his ideal existence. The world described is almost a paradise, without the obstruction of society to spoil things. Every line of the poem serves to emphasize this image of an ideal life. The speaker uses imagery for describing the atmosphere well and metaphors ( line 6) " dropping from the veils of the morning...".Also the speaker emphasizes the contrast between the city and the island during all the poem. He uses audio imagery to reinforce the sound and mood of the poem (line 10 ) " I hear lake water lapping with low sounds..."

I think the speaker wants to share with us a world of fantasy. The speaker wants to recreate for us a landscape full of beauty of nature where we can only feel softness, comfort, warmth and cleanness of the air in the atmosphere far away from the civilization where we cannot reach silence or happiness.