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

In Blakes poem, some of the words are capitalized because of its importance in the context. In the poem, capitalization is given more to words that refers to virtues which one should have in their life because of its due importance and the effectiveness of capitalization of words to convey idea with great importance capitalization of words are used.


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How would you explain the lines

For Mercy has a human heart,


Pity a human face,


And Love, the human form divine,


And Peace, the human dress.

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How do Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love get distorted in the human brain?

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Blake’s poetry expresses one aspect of his multi-dimensional view of human experience—of mankind once whole and happy, now fallen into discord and tyranny, from which it must be rescued. Explain with reference to these two poems.

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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.