Innisfree

The story goes that when Irish born poet William Butler Yeats walked the streets of London and heard the sound of running water, it reminded him of the many summers spent in his youth at the tiny uninhabited island of Innisfree in Lough Gill, County Sligo, Ireland. That memory inspired him to write the poem “The Lake Isle of Innisfree” (1888) which became very famous.  It describes his yearning to escape urban life for the tranquility of nature and  leading a simple life The dream like poem is a favorite to many people. Time is mentioned by way of describing moments in the day, the morning, noon, evening and midnight. Widely considered one of the greatest poets of the English language, he received the Nobel prize for literature in 1923.

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