Cullman High Sch

ENGLISH MISC

9.06 William Butler Yeats

1)When did Yeats receive the Nobel Prize for Literature?

2. Who did Yeats marry?

3. Why did some people say Yeats thought he was better than others?

4. In “The Lake Isle of Innisfree” what is the speaker going to build?

5. What is the speaker looking for at Innisfree?

6. What will the day be like at this special place?

7. What do you think the last two lines of the poem mean?

8. In “When You are Old,” what is the speaker asking of the lady?

9. Put the first stanza in your own words.
10. What do you think the book could represent?

11. How does the speaker feel at the end of the poem?