Author of poems, William Butler Yeats, wrote during the twentieth century that it was a time of change. It has been marked by world wars, revolutions, technological innovations and even the explosion of mass media. Throughout the poems Yeats 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 choices of words 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 arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, and build a little hut there, made of clay and wattles..." (Pg. 1141, lines 1-2) Once he tells us where he is going, he uses lake as symbol to describe its place of peace and serenity. “And there I will have some peace, for peace comes slowly, falling from the morning violets to where the cricket sings; there midnight is all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, and evening...