a utopian view on william butler yeats' the lake isle of innisfree.pptx
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It is a critical analysis on WB Yeats' The Lake Isle of Innisfree. The reader used Historical-Biographical approach to unravel the true meaning of the text.TRANSCRIPT
Lake Isle of Innisfreeby William Butler Yeats
William Butler YeatsAuthor’s Background
William Butler Yeats
was an Irish poet, dramatist and mystic. He was awarded
the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923.
William Butler Yeats
June 13, 1865Sandymount, County Dublin,
Ireland
William Butler Yeats
Father – John Yeats: a descendant of Jervis Yeats
Mother – Susan Mary Pollexfen: came from a wealthy Anglo-Irish family who owned a prosperous milling and shipping business
William Butler Yeats
SLIGOcounty town in Ireland
William Butler YeatsJack - a highly regarded painter
Elizabeth and Susan Mary – involved in the Arts and Crafts Movement (international design movement that originated in England)
William Butler Yeats
January 26, 1877Godolphin Primary School
“Only Fair”
William Butler Yeats
Had difficulty with Mathematics and Languages
Tone Deaf
Was fascinated by Biology and Zoology
William Butler Yeats
1885He started writing poetry
William Butler Yeats1889
Maud Gonne
a 23-year-old poet, feminist, actress, and
revolutionary
William Butler Yeats
"it seems to me that she [Gonne] brought into my life those days—for as yet I saw only what lay upon the surface—the middle of the tint, a sound as of a Burmese gong, an
over-powering tumult that had yet many pleasant secondary notes."
William Butler Yeats
1891he visited Gonne in Ireland
proposed a marriage
REJECTED
William Butler Yeats
1916Final proposal to Gonne
REJECTED
William Butler YeatsSeptember,
1916
Georgie Hyde Lees
October 20 – They got married
William Butler Yeats1934 – he underwent the Steinach operation (vasectomy) at 69 years old
1939 – he died at the Hôtel Idéal Séjour, in Menton, France (January 28)
William Butler Yeats
“If I die bury me up there [at Roquebrune] and then in a
year's time when the newspapers have forgotten
me, dig me up and plant me in Sligo'."
The Poem
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.
The Poem
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.
The Poem
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.
Lake Isle of Innisfree
first published in his second collectionThe Rose
was published first in the National Observer in England
was an attempt to create a form of poetry that was Irish in origin
Literary Approach
Historical – BiographicalApproach
Lake Isle of Innisfree
He was prompted to write the poem in London
exiled from the rural beauty he captures so brilliantly in the
poem
Lake Isle of Innisfree
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
he wished to imitate Thoreauby living…
on Innisfree – an uninhabited island in Lough Gill
Lake Isle of Innisfree
the speaker’s longing for the peace and tranquility of Innisfree
return to the island of Innisfree because of the peace and quiet it
affords
lulled by the "lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore."
Lake Isle of Innisfree
Innisfree as a Utopia
Lake Isle of Innisfree
UTOPIA
INNISFREE
MAUD GONNE
Thank You for Listening
CHESTER M. DEREQUITO