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.
    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:


      • 2.
        Read the following extract and answer the questions that follow:
        ‘I only came to tell you that I dreamed about you last night,’ she said. ‘You must leave right away and not come back to Vienna for five years.’
        Her conviction was so real that I boarded the last train to Rome that same night. As for me, I was so influenced by what she said that from then on I considered myself a survivor of some catastrophe I never experienced. I still have not returned to Vienna.
        (I Sell My Dreams)


          • 3.
            In the poem 'A Lecture Upon the Shadow', what does the metaphor 'shadow' represent?


              • 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.
                        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)

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