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NCERT · Class 12 · English

Chapter 3: Poems by Blake

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Language Work

2 questions
Q1Written answer

Certain words in the poem have been capitalised. Can you think of reasons for this?

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Answer. In the poem, some of the words are capitalised to draw readers’ attention to know the importance of the words in the context. The words that are capitalised in the poem refer to the virtues one should implement in their life. The effectiveness of capitalising terms is to convey to the readers what different virtues mean and denote.

Q2Written answer

Count the syllables in the lines of ‘The Divine Image’. Do you see a pattern? The first line has eight, and the second line has six syllables. Two syllables make a foot in poetry. Here, the first syllable of each foot is unstressed, and the second syllable is stressed.

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Answer. Yes, we can see a pattern in the lines of ‘The Divine Image’. The first line has eight, and the second line has six syllables. The first syllable of each foot is unstressed. The second syllable is stressed because in each foot, one of the syllables is more prominent or more substantial than the other syllable(s), and it is called the strong syllable, termed the head syllable. The other syllables in the foot are the weak syllables.