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Detailed explanation-1: -Shakoor Rather is a Kashmiri journalist based in Delhi. He has written extensively about Kashmir’s politics, society, culture and heritage. Having grown up in the Kashmir Valley during its most difficult decades, he writes with rare sensitivity about the different dimensions of the conflict there.

Detailed explanation-2: -About the Author Shakoor Rather is a Kashmiri journalist based in Delhi. He has written extensively about Kashmir’s politics, society, culture and heritage. Having grown up in the Kashmir Valley during its most difficult decades, he writes with rare sensitivity about the different dimensions of the conflict there.

Detailed explanation-3: -Clock towers are a specific type of structure which house a turret clock and have one or more clock faces on the upper exterior walls. Many clock towers are freestanding structures but they can also adjoin or be located on top of another building.

Detailed explanation-4: -Interpretation: The loneliness of the old man is powerfully presented through the image of the clock tower symbolically. Like the clock tower which is old, neglected and waiting its end day, the old man has also the same fate- old, rejected and dejected. The poem has revealed the bitter reality of old age.

Detailed explanation-5: -The poem, “The Clock Tower” tells that an old pensioner is passing his days boringly. The poet makes the comparison between the old pensioner and the clock tower. As we compare him with the clock tower, we find that the veteran is not happy with his present life.