Poetry writer, William Butler Yeats, wrote during the 20th century, a time of change. It was marked by world wars, revolutions, technological innovations, but also by an explosion of media. Throughout Yeats's poems, he indirectly sends a message to his readers through the symbolism of certain objects. In the poems The Lake Isle of Innisfree, The Wild Swans at Cole, and Sailing to Byzantium, all by William Yeats express the emotional impact of his word choices and symbolic images. To begin, the poem, The Lake Isle of Innisfree, uses Lake Innisfree to send a symbolic message. Yeats begins by telling us where he is going. “I will rise and go now, and go to Innisfree, and a little hut built there, of clay and wattles…” (P. 1141, lines 1-2) Once he told us where he goes, he then uses lake as a symbol to describe his place of peace and serenity. “And I will have a little peace there, for peace comes slowly, descending from the morning viels to where the cricket sings; there midnight is a glow, and noon a violet glow, and evening...