Class 9 English: The Lake Isle of Innisfree Worksheet (with Answers)
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- 1. The Lake Isle of Innisfree was written by:
- (a) W.B. Yeats
- (b) Robert Frost
- (c) Coates Kinney
- (d) Phoebe Cary
- 2. The poet longs to go to:
- (a) a big city
- (b) Innisfree
- (c) the mountains
- (d) a desert
- 3. At Innisfree, the poet dreams of building a small:
- (a) palace
- (b) ship
- (c) cabin
- (d) shop
- 4. He imagines keeping:
- (a) cattle
- (b) horses
- (c) dogs
- (d) honeybees
- 5. Where does the poet wish to go?
- 6. How does he wish to live there?
- 7. How does 'The Lake Isle of Innisfree' express the poet's longing for nature?
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- 1. (a) W.B. Yeats — It is by W.B. Yeats.
- 2. (b) Innisfree — He longs for the island of Innisfree.
- 3. (c) cabin — He dreams of a small cabin.
- 4. (d) honeybees — He imagines keeping honeybees.
- 5. To Innisfree, a peaceful island.
- 6. Simply, with a small cabin, beans and honeybees.
- 7. The poem is filled with the poet's deep longing to leave his busy life and go to Innisfree, a small and peaceful island. He dreams of living there in the simplest way — building a small cabin, growing rows of beans and keeping honeybees — and surrounding himself with the quiet beauty of nature. He imagines the soothing sounds of crickets, the songs of birds and, above all, the gentle lapping of the lake water. This longing is so powerful that even as he stands on the dull, grey pavements of the city, he can hear the sound of the lake water deep in his heart. Through these vivid images of nature and the poet's heartfelt wish to be at Innisfree, the poem expresses a strong and moving desire to escape the rush of modern life and find calm and contentment in the natural world.
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- Which board and class is this for?
- This worksheet is aligned to CBSE Class 9 English, chapter “The Lake Isle of Innisfree”.