Mind Quest: Answer The Following Questions. Discuss The Answers With Your Friends

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QUESTIONS

Poem – The Lake Isle of Innisfree

Mind Quest
The Lake Isle of Innisfree

Answer the following questions. Discuss the answers with your friends.

1. Where does the persona want to go?


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2. What will the persona do once he is in the Lake Isle of Innisfree?


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3. What does the phrase “midnight’s all a glimmer’ in the poem mean?
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4. Which line in the poem means small brown and grey birds come out in the
evening?
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5. Why do you think the persona want to leave the place immediately for Lake Isle of
Innisfree?
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QUESTIONS
Poem – The Lake Isle of Innisfree

6. What is the similar meaning of the word “lapping”?


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7. Which lines in the poem show that peace comes slowly and quietly like the morning
mist until the crickets break the silence and peace by singing aloud?
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8. Which words in the poem refer to light?


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9. What does the phrase “and noon a purple glow” in the poem denote?
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10. What is the persona’s attitude toward nature?


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