Have you ever flicked through the pages of your Irish Passport?
When you carry your Irish passport across oceans and continents, not only do you carry poetry in your heart, but it is proudly engraved on the proof of your identity.
Take WB Yates on a journey with you, Irish poetry travels well and is timeles
‘I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made;
Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee,
And live alone in the bee-loud glade.‘
And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,
Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings;
There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow,
And evening full of the linnet’s wings.
I will arise and go now, for always night and day
I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;
While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey,
I hear it in the deep heart’s core.
The poem was written around 1893
This was at the time when Yeats, came in contact with writers such as-
Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw. Simultaneously he became involved in the struggle for Irish independence. In the Lake Isle of Innisfree, we can see that Yates longed for inner peace and the simple activities of every-day life. In this most beautiful and well renowned poem, I detect a certain sadness-
Yeats yearns solitude from a busy world and longed to be in the countryside, most especially a remote Island He chose Innisfree, on Lough Gill in County Sligo where, he spent many years immortalizing the absolute beauty of the region in his poetry.
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