These types will be explored in the following texts, emphasising the challenges faced when defining the sense of identity: a pun cartoon "Block Party" and "The Lake Isle Of Innisfree", a poem about the author's uncertainty of defining identity in different worlds. ... The second text, "The Lake Isle Of Innisfree", is a three-stanza poem exploring the themes of identity. The first line "I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree" states that he has decided to take a break away from modern society. The word "Innisfree" gives out gentle-s...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In "The Lake Isle of Innisfree," Yeats" speaker cries out for control and a better life through his general theme of escapism from society and the modern world. ... Even the setting of the lyric poem in beautiful, scenic Innisfree, a small islet in a lake in the Lough Hill, Sligo county of Ireland, indicates the speaker's cry for control. Within the poem, the subservience of nature to the speaker in his Innisfree "fantasy" denotes the need for power. ... (Rosenthal, 13) "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" represents a struggle for the human to remain true to his inner and, some times, n...

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I found these traits particularly evident in "September 1913", "Eater 1916", "Lake Isle Of Innisfree", "An Irish airman foresees his death" "The Wild Swans at Coole" and "Swift's Epitaph". ...

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• Grade Level: High School

A path from romanticism to modernism. The stylistic evolution of Yeats" travels through several stages across his career. Initially as a young poet, Yeats wrote much literary ornate verse. From his first publication in 1885 he"d been much influenced by the pre-Raphaelites. A group of artists a...

• Word Count: 2111
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School