##arison Of Down By The Sally Gardens And The Lake Isle Of...

William Butler Yeats is considered to be one of the notable poets of Irish literature and had a major role in Irish politics. One can notice the slow shift from the English style of romanticism to serious political messages in his poems. A lot of his early works had a lot of motifs and imagery of nature. I want to examine two of these poems, Down by the Sally Gardens and The Lake Isle of Innisfree, the way these poems are designed are somewhat similar, but may have contrasting meanings and may have different contexts. Down by the Sally Gardens and The Lake Isle of Innisfree both are nature poems, which means, they use natural aesthetic to describe human emotions. Both of them are early works of W.B. Yeats. These poems, unlike, Easter 1916†¦show more content†¦Yeats is starting to talk more about the beauty of Ireland. He is not getting fully political, but he is definitely more patriotic and is proud to call Innisfree his land. A bit of the poem is like an incantation. â€Å"I shall arise and go now, and go to Innisfree† (1); â€Å"And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made: Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee† (2-3) â€Å"While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey,† (The Lake Isle of Innisfree, 11) There is a lot of description to nature in Innisfree, like, â€Å"veils of the morning†, â€Å"midnight’s glimmer†, â€Å"noon a purple glow†, a place that W.B. Yeats is mentioning in this poem. He is missing the nature, the feeling of that place that he considers his homeland. With reference to line 11 and 12, it may be because he is in a highly urbanized place, he wants to go back to his Innisfree where everything was perfect and beautiful. Unlike â€Å"Down by the Sally Gardens† where he uses nature to describe human emotions of struggle, in The Lake Isle of Innisfree, he believes he will be at peace over there, â€Å"And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,† (5) This poem has a tone of an incantation and he uses nature to romanticize the country he loves. It may also be that the poet is giving Ireland it’s own anthem. That can be shown in the last stanza of the poem, â€Å"I hear it in the deep heart†™s core.† (12) This line sort of is like he is being called from Ireland and the Irish