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Irish Competition Searches for Conceptual Interpretations of WB Yeats Poem: "The Lake Isle of Innisfree"

In collaboration with The Model, Hazelwood Demesne Ltd, and Sligo City Council, the Institute of Technology Sligo has launched "The Lake Isle of Innisfree," an international architecture competition ...
New York Sun

Poem of the Day: ‘The Lake Isle of Innisfree’

William Butler Yeats (1865–1939) is reported to have come to loathe “The Lake Isle of Innisfree.” Given time and enough repeat performances, artists often learn to despise their greatest hits. Of all ...
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CODA’s "Cabinette" Reflects the Tension in WB Yeats’ Poem “Lake Isle of Innisfree”

In his 1892 poem Lake Isle of Innisfree, WB Yeats fantasizes about a life lived in solitude on an island in Lough Gill in Ireland, where the poet spent his summers as a child. Earlier this year, as a ...
The Atlantic

The Joy of the Memorized Poem

William Butler Yeats’ “The Lake Isle of Innisfree” is about the allure of an imagined refuge. The poem’s distressed urban speaker fantasizes about fleeing the city and retreating to an idyllic Irish ...
Irish Central

Korean makeup brand launching in US takes its name from a Yeats poem

Korean budget beauty brand Innisfree, which opened its first US store this week, took its name from a poem by Irish poet W. B. Yeats. The popular Korean beauty brand Innisfree opened its first US ...
The Korea Times

Re-reading 'The Lake Isle of Innisfree'

Life is given to everybody regardless of whether she or he wants it or not. We live that life. Though that life is tough from time to time, we have to live. My family lived in Suwon, near Seoul, for ...