Poem - The Lake Isle of Innisfree Class 9 Worksheet English Chapter 1

Multiple Choice Questions

Q1: What does the poet hear night and day in the core of his heart?
(a) The sound of the lake water lapping against the shore of Innisfree.
(b) The cries of his children telling him to come back home.
(c) The cries of his countrymen to fight for his country
(d) The cries of birds and animals to come and live with them in the forest.
Q2: What beautiful sight will he get to see there?
(a) The glimmer of midnight stars.
(b) The linnets flying about in the evening.
(c) The purple glow of the noon.
(d) All the above.
Q3: What does the poet hope to get there?
(a) Peace.
(b) Wealth.
(c) Friends.
(d) Name and fame.
Q4: Where does the poet want to go?
(a) To London.
(b) To Paris.
(c) To Innisfree.
(d) To Switzerland.
Q5: Name the poet of The Lake Isle of Innisfree’.
(a) James Kirkup.
(b) Robert Frost.
(c) W.B. Yeats.
(d) Phoebe Cary.
Q6: Select the name of the poet of the poem ‘The Lake Isle of Innisfree’.
(a) Robert Frost
(b) Subramania Bharati
(c) Coates Kinney
(d) W.B. Yeats
Q7: What does the poet hear at Innisfree Island?
(a) the sound of raindrops
(b) the noise of the wind
(c) the lapping low sounds of the
(d) none of these three options lake water
Q8: What does the poet see in Innisfree land?
(a) glimmering midnight
(b) purple noon
(c) the evening full of linnet’s wings
(d) all the options are correct
Q9: Where will the poet have peace?
(a) in his home
(b) in heaven
(c) in Innisfree land
(d) in a lake
Q10: What thing will the poet not do on the Innisfree land?
(a) build a restaurant
(b) build a small cabin
(c) plant nine bean rows
(d) build a hive for the honeybee

Very Short Answer Questions

Q1: Read the following passages and answer the questions:
Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee;
And live alone in the bee-loud glade.
(i) What kind of garden does he want to have?
(ii) Why does he want to build a hive?
(iii) What is a glade?
(iv) What does he want to do there?

Q2: What is the poet going to build in Innisfree and why?
Q3: What kind of house does the poet want to build?
Q4: How the poet wants to spend his time in Innisfree?
Q5: Where was the poet at the time of penning the poem?
Q6: Read the following passages and answer the questions:
I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made:
(i) Who is I in the first line?

(ii) What’s his resolve?
(iii) What is he going to build there?
(iv) What are wattles?

Q7: What is the intension of the poet?
Q8: Why does the poet want to live alone?
Q9: The poet in the last two lines presents a different picture. What is it?
Q10: Why does the poet want to go to Innisfree and what he intends to do there?

Short Answer Questions

Q1: Describe the Lake Isle of Innisfree as seen through the eyes of the poet.
Q2: What kind of life does the poet William Butler Yeats imagine in his poem “The Lake Isle of Innisfree”?
Q3: How does the poet describe the lake’s waves?
Q4: Why does the speaker in the poem “The Lake Isle of Innisfree” desire to spend his time alone in his cabin?
Q5: What words does the poet use to describe how calmness and tranquillity will come to him at Innsifree?

Long Answer Questions

Q1: How does Yeats create the atmosphere of the island and its sights and sounds in “The Lake Isle of Innisfree”? Refer closely to the use of language in the first two stanzas.
Q2: Explain the contrast between the last four lines of “The Lake Isle of Innisfree” and the rest of the poem.
Q3: Briefly describe the major theme of the poem ‘The Lake Isle of Innisfree”, Nature vs City life.
Q4: Why does the poet want to go Innisfree?
Q5: In W.B. Yeats’s poem, “The Lake Isle of Innisfree,” what indications does the speaker give of his present environment?

Reference to Context

Q1: Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow.
I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made; 
Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee,
And live alone in the bee-loud glade.
(a) Who does T refer to in the stanza?
(b) Where is he at the present moment?
(c) Where does he want to go?
(d) What does he wish to do there?

Q2: Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow.
I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made;
Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee,
And live alone in the bee-loud glade.
(a) Name the poetic device used in the first line.
(b) What does the word ‘there’ in the above lines refer to?
(c) Why does the poet wish to do go to Innisfree?
(d) What does the stanza suggest about the poet?

Q3: Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow.
And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow
Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings;
There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow.
And evenings full of the linnet’s wings.
(a) What is the poet going there to find?
(b) Explain: What do you think “for peace comes dropping slow/ Dropping from the veils of the morning”?
(c) How has noon been described in the stanza?
(d) What is a ‘Linnet’?

Q4: Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow.
And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow
Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings;
There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow.
And evenings full of the linnet’s wings.
(a) Where is the poet at the moment?
(b) What did the poet see in the morning?
(c) What did the poet hear?
(d) How does peace come in the morning?

Q5: Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow.
I will arise and go now, for always night and day
I hear the lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;
While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey,
I hear it in the deep heart’s core.
(a) What is the poet’s tone as he repeats “I will arise and go now”?
(b) What does the poet hear?
(c) What do you learn about the poet in this stanza?
(d) How does the poet contrast London and Innisfree?

Q6: Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow.
I will arise and go now, for always night and day
I hear the lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;
While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey,
I hear it in the deep heart’s core.
(a) Explain the line “lake water lapping with low sounds”.
(b) Bring out the internal rhyme used in the above lines.
(c) Why does the poet want to go to Lake Isle of Innisfree?
(d) Why is the poet looking for peace in Innisfree?

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