NCERT Solutions for Class 12 Kaleidoscope Poetry Chapter 7 Time and Time Again

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NCERT Solutions for Class 12 Kaleidoscope Poetry Chapter 7 Time and Time Again are provided in this article with the download link. This poem is written by the great poet and scholar of Indian Literature A.K.Ramanujan. As the title of the poem suggests, the central theme of the poem is ‘Time’. This poem also deals with the fact that time is always flowing, once gone it never comes back. 

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NCERT Solutions For Class 12 English Kaleidoscope Poetry Chapter 7


Time and Time Again Summary

This is a short poem of fourteen lines that deals with the central theme of ‘Time’. Time has been a well-discussed theme as it deals with the core concepts of how life is related to it. The poet A.K. Ramanujan beautifully deals with this issue in this poem as well.

  • This poem begins with the poet asking the readers to pay attention to the clock tower in a well-developed area.
  • He also mentions that one moment is always different from the other.
  • Then the poet goes on to describe the bells of the clocktower.
  • In the next part of this poem, the poet describes why the time is different for every clocktower.
  • According to the poet, every clock tower represents a little different timing as they represent those people who had made them with their shaky hands, those people who live in different time zones and belong to different religions.
  • The poet concluded the poem by saying that time and nature know what is best for the human race, hence they are moving forward. Therefore, the bad time will be gone soon and only peace will remain.

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CBSE CLASS XII Related Questions

  • 1.
    Why was Margayya's house known as 'Tooth Powder House'?


      • 2.
        In the poem 'A Lecture Upon the Shadow', what does the metaphor 'shadow' represent?


          • 3.
            Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:
            What needs my Shakespear for his honour’d Bones,
            The labour of an age in piled Stones,
            Or that his hallow’d reliques should be hid
            Under a Star-ypointing Pyramid?
            Dear son of memory, great heir of Fame,
            What need’st thou such weak witness of thy name?
            Thou in our wonder and astonishment
            Hast built thy self a live-long Monument.
            (On Shakespear. 1630)


              • 4.
                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.
                (A Wedding in Brownsville)


                  • 5.
                    Why did Margayya refuse to part with his purse?


                      • 6.
                        Discuss the 'House of Enlightenment' and what it symbolizes for Balu.

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