The Lake Isle of Innisfree
How does William Butler Yeats use imagery in The Lake Isle of Innisfree?
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The imagery and figurative language in the second stanza underscores the dreamy nature of the speaker's fantasy, highlighting the distinction between the real and the imaginary, the present and the future, the city and the country.
The Lake Isle of Innisfree