Question

In what way is the experience of the poet about the lake quite different from that of an ordinary man in the poem the lake of innisfree

Answer 1

The poet's experience of the lake is different from that of an ordinary man as the poet is not physically present near the lake and only imagines what it would be like to live near it

Answer 2

The ordinary men of this Irish poet’s era were not highly educated in contrast to Yeats’ membership in the ‘Anglo Irish Ascendency’.

The ordinary men at that time found a livelihood either labouring in the mills or by farming half-acre of potatoes.

They lacked both the knowledge and interest to understand the poem’s beauty which is why the lake experience will vary from Yeats to the ordinary men.