Question

What is the hyperbole in "The Lake Isle of Innisfree?"

Answer 1

What is the hyperbole in "The Lake Isle of Innisfree?"
Hyperbole is not usually the first word one associates with "The Lake Isle of Innisfree," but if we understand hyperbole to mean not only exaggeration, but "claims [that are] not meant to be taken literally," as Google defines it, we can begin develop a context for understanding the poem through this lens. 

The poem does use hyperbole in the sense of "claims not meant to be taken literally." Yeats was inspired to write this poem...