Question

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 gray,
I hear it in the deep heart’s core.

What associations does the speaker in “The Lake Isle of Innisfree” by William Butler Yeats build around the symbol of Innisfree?


A. innocence and purity


B. complexity and difficulty

C. youth and peace


D. age and loss

Answer 1

The association that the speaker in “The Lake Isle of Innisfree” by William Butler Yeats build around the symbol of Innisfree is of youth and peace

Step-by-step explanation:

Innisfree is a real place that in fact, the writer visited many times in his childhood in this poem it is a representation of the peace the nature used to bring him and the youth of his childhood and youth years when he used to be there, they are in the past now and they are never coming back as we can see in the poem.