2. I will arise and go now, for always night and day
I hear the lake water lapping with low sounds by the share;
Now, answer the following questions :
() Where will the poet go and how long time he will stay there?
(ii) What will the poet hear?
(iii) What is the importance of “deep heart's core"?
(iv) Name the poetic device in the phrase 'low sounds by the shore'.
Answers
Answer:
I): The poet wants to go Innisfree in search of peace. He does not like London with its noise and grey pavements. He wants to live in a place which is the opposite of London; he craves for some peace and hence he wants to go to Innisfree where he will be self-sufficient. He will build a small cabin and grow beans and make his own honey by keeping honeybees. Instead of city noise, he will hear the buzzing of the bees and the sound of lake water lapping against the shore.
ii): "In the deep heart's core" he hears, even while standing on the roadways and pavements of an urban center, the sounds of Nature that fill the air at Innisfree. In his memory and imagination, the speaker hears the quiet lapping of small waves along the lakeshore that are a constant sound there.
iii): In the phrase "deep heart's core," the speaker is trying to communicate that he feels the memory of the soothing lapping of the waters as a calming emotion amid all the hectic, urban business of life. He carries his time with nature inside of himself, and it helps keep him at peace.
iv): Alliteration is a useful poetic device in which certain sounds are repeated at the beginning of words in a sentence or phrase.