William B. Yeats

William B. Yeats' "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" is exceptional because the words portray how the poem is about the earth and all of it's beautiful surroundings. Of course, a person can use this to be symbolic with love but the beauty of the words in this poem lead me to believe that it is actually about a beautiful day. I have sung this text to an octavo before and the text painting that goes along with the music is extraordinary. The song rises and falls with the text. In "To the Rose Upon the Rood of Time", the rose can symbolize multiple things. The color red is often associated with anger or lust, and the lust in this poem is not for another person but for life. William B. Yeats longs to find the thing he's been searching for that will make sense to him and that is what the color red/the rose symbolizes.