The Lake Isle of Innisfree Themes

Home is where the heart is, right? So while the speaker of "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" appears to live in a city, it seems that in "his heart's core," home is somewhere entirely different, and he'...

Isolation can be a pretty lonely affair, but not in "The Lake Isle of Innisfree." The speaker seems to really crave some solitude, and can you blame him? He's sick of the congested city, and the on...

Conflict between man and the natural world is a common theme in literature—but not here! The speaker of "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" takes a totally harmonious, tree-hugging, green-loving approac...