Look at these words :... peace comes dropping slow Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings What do these words mean to you? What do you think “comes dropping slow...from the veils of the morning”? What does “to where the cricket sings” mean? Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship. —Gautama Buddha Lincoln

Look at the words the poet uses to describe what he sees and hears at Innisfree (i) Bee-loud glade(ii) Evenings full of the Linnets wings(iii) Lake water lapping with law sound. What pictures to these words create in your mind?

Do you think Innisfree is only a place, or a state of mind? Does the poet actually miss the place of his boyhood days?

By now you may have concluded that Innisfree is a simple, natural place, full of beauty and peace. How does the poet contrast it with where he now stands? (Read stanza III.)

What kind of place is Innisfree? Think about :

Your teacher will dictate these paragraphs to you. Write down the paragraphs with correct punctuation marks. In 1931 Charlie Chaplin invited Albert Einstein, who was visiting Hollywood, to a private screening of his new film, City Lights. As the two men drove into town together, passersby waved and cheered. Chaplin turned to his guest and explained: “The people are applauding you because none of them understands you and applauding me because everybody understands me.” One of Einstein’s colleagues asked him for his telephone number one day. Einstein reached for a telephone directory and looked it up. “You don’t remember your own number?” the man asked, startled.