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I will arise and go now, for always night and dayI hear the 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.Questions :(1) Where does the poet want to go? Why?(2) What do the last two lines of the stanza suggest?(3) Pick out the rhyming words from the stanza. |
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Answer» (1) The poet is determined to go to Innisfree. Tor always night and day’ lets us know that he is pretty haunted by the place – even obsessed. It is an auditory image that he hears the lapping of the water on Innisfree in his mind and is determined to go there. (2) These lines suggest that the poet is in some urban place, i.e., on road way or on payment; still the lapping of the waters of Innisfree he hears in his heart. There is an emotional connection. It means that the poet feels and dreams deeply. (3) The rhyming words in this stanza are: day – grey, shore – core. |
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