TO THE WORLD OF

W B Yeats

William Butler Yeats

Born on June 13, 1865 in Dublin country of Ireland

He founded Ireland's first National Theatre in 1901 in Dublin

The Nobel Prize winner poet

He became a senator of the Irish Free State in 1922 and he received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923.

Nobel Prize

I WILL arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, 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 honey bee, 

And live alone in the bee-loud glade. 

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 honey bee,       And live alone in the bee-loud glade. 

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The rhyme scheme is ‘ab, ab.’

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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 evening full of the linnet's wings. 

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 evening full of the linnet's

wings. 

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I will arise and go now, for always night and day I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;  

While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements gray, I hear it in the deep heart's core. 

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How good are you at this?

What is the message conveyed through the poem? What kind of place is Innisfree? Name three things that the poet wants to do there after

going there. When shall the poet experience peace there? How has the poet described the morning, noon and

midnight? What beauty of nature will the poet observe? How will the poet enjoy his stay there? Where does the poet stand now?

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the M.L.I.I(Master in Lake

Isle of Innisfree) Degree!