Question

what does the poet longs for? (in the poem the lake isle of innisfree, stanza 2)

Answer 1

Yeats imagines Innisfree as an idyllic place of peace and solitude. He imagines a "small cabin" of "clay and wattles" where he will support himself on beans and honey from his bee hive, and he will "live alone in the bee-loud glade." There is also a sense that the "peace" he will find there is connected to its natural beauty, since peace "comes dropping slow, / Dropping from the veils of the morning to where...