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SAI INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL

GRADE IX-ENGLISH
MODULE 13 – THE LAKE ISLE OF INNISFREE (POEM)
BY WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
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OBJECTIVES

 To enable the students to appreciate the beauty of nature
 To understand the meaning of difficult words.
 To develop a sense of understanding to live in the lap of nature.
 To enable them to observe and describe the activities of the birds and
other creatures in natural conditions.

Introduction to the poem
This poem is a lyric. It is a musical poem. It explores the poet‟s longing for the peace
and tranquillity of Innisfree, a place where he spent a lot of time as a boy. Innisfree is
the name of a place. It is a very quiet place and that is the reason the poet wants to
go there. He had spent his childhood in this place. He has very sweet memories of
that place that is why he wanted to go back to the lake island of
Innisfree.
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About The Poet -William Butler Yeats (13 June 1865 – 28
January 1939) was an Irish poet and one of the foremost
figures of 20th-century literature. A pillar of the Irish literary
establishment, he helped to found the Abbey Theatre, and in
his later years served two terms as a Senator of the Irish Free
State. Yeats was born in Sandymount, Ireland, and educated
there and in London. He spent childhood holidays in County
Sligo and studied poetry from an early age, when he became
fascinated by Irish legends and the occult. From 1900, his poetry grew more physical
and realistic. He largely renounced the transcendental beliefs of his youth, though he
remained preoccupied with physical and spiritual masks, as well as with cyclical
theories of life. In 1923, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.