The Lake Isle of Innisfree

This week’s Poetry Aloud is the lovely “The Lake Isle of Innisfree,” by the Irish-English poet William Butler Yeats. He’s in the city, and he wishes instead he were in a more human place, which is, ironically, on a small island in the middle of a lake, where he can be alone with himself, and the beans he grows, and the bees he keeps for their honey.…