Marisa Cuni week 12

Hirsch (2007) emphasizes that reading a poem is a difficult task that requires developing skills and practice over time. Thus, why for success poem, the reader may acquire additional ideas that were not present in the writer’s mind at the time of composition, and thus the poem may occasionally suggest some experience that comes close to depicting some of the ideas to the audience. Regardless, it is the reader’s responsibility to complete the task begun by the poet in their poems. One of the poems we discussed this week was W.B. Yeats’s 1865–1939 poem The Lake Isle of Innisfree. Generally, I’ve used a variety of strategies to carry out the poet’s intentions in this poem. To begin, one can glean ideas from the poem’s title and shape by reading it aloud. The title of the poem, which includes a keyword such as “Lake,” indicates that its content is about the poet’s interaction with nature, while the poem’s shape indicates that it is a brief poem. More specifically, in terms of punctuation and grammar, the poem contains an end-stopped line. For instance, “I will arise and proceed immediately to Innisfree” is a line that ends in a comma. The poem’s remaining lines all end in a comma, full stop, or semicolon. The sound and rhythm of the line also dictate where it terminates. The poem is rhymed in a four-line grouping. In the first four lines, for example, the rhyming words are “Innisfree/honey-bee” and “made/glade.” Additionally, I completed my education about the poem through a shared inquiry discussion that conveyed its messages about the harmony that exists between humans and nature. By analyzing lines such as “Nine beans-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee” in a group discussion, one can gain a better understanding of the lines, which refer to a man desiring a simple life.