The poem describes the speaker's desire to live alone on the small island of Innisfree. Some key details include: - The speaker wants to build a small cabin of clay and woven sticks called wattles on the island. - They want to keep a small space of nine bean rows as a hive for honeybees in the open forest clearing called a glade. - Descriptions of the natural sounds of crickets and linnets singing, and the peaceful lapping of water, paint the island as a tranquil place away from the world.

1. The Lake Isle of
Innisfree - II

2. VOCABULARY
LITERARY DEVICES

3. VOCABULARY

4. WATTLE
Definition: Sticks woven together to make fences
SENTENCE: The Goods are stored in a warehouse
surrounded by wattles

5. GLADE
Definition: A glade is an open space in a forest
SENTENCE: The fairies emerged out of the glade

6. CRICKET
Definition: A cricket is a small brown insect that produces a
rhythmical, chirping sound.
SENTENCE: As night fell the crickets began to sing

7. POETIC DEVICES

8. “A hive for the honey-bee”
"live alone in the bee-loud glade."
"There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow"
"lake water lapping with low sounds"
ALLITERARTION
A series of words, occurring close together that have the same first consonant sound.

9. "a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made“
"Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee"
“bee-loud glade.“
"veils of the morning“
"midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow“
"evening full of the linnet’s wings"
IMAGERY
Use of description and vivid language to deepen the understanding of the work, by
appealing to the senses.

10. “Peace comes dropping slow / Dropping from the veils of the morning”
[The dropping of the mist in the sky is compared to the peace that overcomes
the island]
METAPHOR
A metaphor compares two similar things by saying
that one of them is the other.

11. Back to Vocabulary

12. LINNET
Definition: A linnet is a mainly brown and grey songbird.
SENTENCE: She could hear the linnets sing melodiously in
the early hours of the morning.

13. LAPPING
Definition: Gently striking the shore with a soft sound.
SENTENCE: The sound of water lapping around one’s feet is
very calming.

14. IN THE DEEP HEART’S CORE
Definition: In the depths of the heart
SENTENCE: Even though she was gone, he could hear still
her gentle voice in the deep heart’s core.

15. Wattle  Lapping
Glade  In the Deep Heart’s Core
Cricket  Poetic Devices
Linnet
RE-CAP:

16. – Frame sentences of your own using the new words that
you have learnt today.
– Write a short poem on ‘Nature’ using any one or all the
poetic devices that we learnt about today.
HOMEWORK