“What would the self disrobed look like…” in the very opening of the poem demonstrates the poet’s word crafting ability. To say undressed or bare would not have been as elegant, …show more content…
The usage of diction further polishes literary elements, as the poem contains a few metaphors. Disrobed is a metaphor in itself as robes are clothing, but clothing is not what is the poet is writing about. As reading the poem reveals that the robe is a cloak in which society sees. A man even in the most intimate of times is never disrobed, to use the poet’s words, instead there is but a chemise in between our bare selves and what we want the world to see. In “Innisfree”, a metaphor is used in the last line “I hear it in the deep heart’s core”. A feeling of any emotion, especially excitement comes from the “heart.” This is not literal heart, however, it signifies the deepness of one’s passion. For the poet, the escape from the dullness, depicted in the line previous, is longed for so that it speaks to him. In a literal sense this longing for an escape resides deep within himself, and is powerful enough for him to daydream about the lakeside cabin on