please tell me the substance of the poem 'The lake ilse of innisfree'
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Noted poet and playwright William Butler Yeats was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1865 and received an education in both Dublin and London. Throughout his career, he was deeply invested in helping Ireland reclaim a literary culture of its own, free from English influence. When Yeats wrote 'The Lake Isle of Innisfree' in 1888, his journey into poetry had just begun; he wouldn't even have anything published for a year ('Lake Isle' itself was published in 1890). 'Lake Isle' is not nearly as metaphysical or supernatural as Yeats's most famous works (like his calling card, 1920's 'The Second Coming'), but in it we can still see a voice that's distinctly Yeats. Its subject of natural Irish beauty, for instance, betrays Yeats's own nationalism. The poem is also personal: When Yeats wrote 'The Lake Isle of Innisfree,' he was living in London, and one could guess he longed for the beauty and simplicity of the country life he had experienced as a child.