Dreaming of a rural paradise as you find yourself trapped in an hot and smelly urban environment? You can travel, in your mind, to the lake isle of Innisfree with Yeats.
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Travel to Innisfree—in Your Mind
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Dreaming of Travel during Covid
A very smart Covid poem circulating on social media at the moment references 11 poems, all about longing to travel.
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I Must Arise and Go There
Monday Listening to the humming of our hummingbirds the other day, I thought of Yeats’s reference in “The Lake Isle of Inisfree” to linnet wings. I don’t think we have linnets in America and I can’t imagine that they make any sound at all, much less hummingbird buzzing. Still, Yeats conjures up images of feathery […]
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