NCERT Solutions for Class 12 Kaleidoscope Poetry Chapter 3 Poems By Blake

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NCERT Solutions for Class 12 Kaleidoscope Poetry Chapter 3 Poems By Blake are provided in this article with the download link. This chapter basically includes two poems by William Blake, who belongs to the romantic era of literature and is famous for his poetry collection called- “Songs Of Innocence and Of Experienced”. Those poems are- “The Divine Image” and “The Human Abstract”, which are also a part of that collection too.

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Poems By Blake Summary

This chapter includes two poems by William Blake- “The Divine Image” and “The Human Abstract”. We will discuss these two poems separately.

The Divine Image Summary

This Poem includes five stanzas with twenty lines in total. In this poem, William Blake personifies the basic human virtues like- Mercy, Pity, and Love. It is written in the form of a Ballad that follows the ABCB rhyming pattern.

  • In the first stanza, the poet tried to establish a relationship between divinity and humanity.
  • Whereas the second stanza initiates a link between God and human beings.
  • In the third stanza, the poet explained each virtue separately. Blake also portrayed how these virtues are related to humankind.
  • Finally, in the last stanza, the poet describes how those virtues need to be cherished by humankind.

The Human Abstract Summary 

This poem has six stanzas and four lines in every stanza. It is the basic characteristic of Blake’s “Songs Of Innocence and Of Experience” that he wrote two poems related to one basic theme but while one is from the point of view of an innocent mind, the other one is from the point of view of an experienced mind.

  • This poem is the counterpart of the poem ‘ The Divine Image.
  • Here, the poet tried to explain how those virtues- pity, mercy, and happiness can not be there if there was no poverty, misery, and unhappiness.
  • Blake also tried to recreate the idea of the Tree Of Life that is fashioned by human reason to give false ideas about these virtues.
  • The poet concludes this poem by stating that eventually all the virtues will be lost someday and only reality will carry their misery.

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CBSE CLASS XII Related Questions

  • 1.
    Read the following extract and answer the questions that follow:
    Pity would be no more
    If we did not make somebody Poor;
    And Mercy no more could be
    If all were as happy as we.
    And mutual fear brings peace,
    Till the selfish loves increase:
    Then Cruelty knits a snare,
    And spreads his baits with care.
    He sits down with holy fears,
    And waters the ground with tears;
    Then Humility takes its root
    Underneath his foot.
    (The Human Abstract)


      • 2.
        Discuss the 'House of Enlightenment' and what it symbolizes for Balu.


          • 3.
            What was the jungle superstition about how the tiger came to have the stripes and whom did he blame for it? Why did the tiger feel helpless in tackling the situation?


              • 4.
                Read the following poem ‘The Rain’ by Kamala Das :
                We left that old ungainly house
                When my dog died there, after
                The burial, after the rose
                Flowered twice, pulling it by its
                Roots and carting it with our books,
                Clothes and chairs in a hurry.
                We live in a new house now,
                And, the roofs do not leak, but, when
                It rains here, I see the rain drench
                That empty house, I hear it fall
                Where my puppy now lies.
                Alone..
                Based on your understanding of the poem, answer the questions given below:


                  • 5.
                    What is the contrast between the vitality of the swans and the decline of human life?


                      • 6.
                        Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:
                        Solomon Margolin regarded her quietly. She had had her own share of troubles. She had suffered in silence for her two brothers, even for Hans, the Nazi. She had gone through a prolonged change of life. Now her face was flushed and covered with beads of sweat. He earned more than enough to pay for a maid, yet Gretl insisted on doing all the housework herself, even the laundry. It had become a mania with her. Every day she scoured the oven. She was forever polishing the windows of their apartment on the sixteenth floor and without using a safety belt.
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