Themes and Characteristics of Nissim Ezekiel’s Poetry PDF

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Some of the subjects of Nissim Ezekiel's poetry are discussed in this article. Nissim's biggest contribution was to modernise poetry, giving it subjects and techniques that were in tune with the times. His poetry serves as a bridge between pre- and post-independence Indian poetry in English. Detachm...

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Themes and Characteristics of Nissim Ezekiel’s Poetry Poems by Nissim Ezekiel Nissim Ezekiel is one of India's most prolific poets and one of the country's most unique lyrical personalities. He is regarded as an established Indian-English poet of the post-Independence era, having published seven volumes of poetry. He exemplified a poet who was both academically and ethically interested with creating poetry from life's events. In his poetry, he acknowledges what is felt and lived in all of its complexities, contradictions, thrills, worries, and disillusionments, without preconceived notions about what poetry should say about the poet or life.

1. Modernizing Indian English Poetry Ezekiel has a secure and permanent position in Indian English poetry. His biggest contribution was to modernise poetry, giving it subjects and techniques that were in tune with the times. His poetry serves as a bridge between pre- and postindependence Indian poetry in English. He gave poetry an urban flavour, exposing

the faults of metropolitan culture via irony and light sarcasm. Michael German is correct in his assessment of his contribution to poetry:

2. Indian Influence in Nissim Ezekiel's Poetry Post-Independence Indian English poets are primarily concerned to investigating and presenting current events in the subcontinent to which they belong. For postIndependence Indian English poetry, the Indian culture and ethics supply the superstructure as well as the infrastructure. The presence of India in Ezekiel's art is profoundly anchored in the country's physical reality.

3. Detachment His genealogy may explain for his ability to cultivate detachment while also practising inwardness in his knowledge and absorbing the experience of the situation in India. He is an Indian poet whose Indianness has piqued his curiosity in the work of a Jew who was a permanent stranger in this nation. In his poetry, he exposes the Indians' faults, foibles, shortcomings, and limitations. The fact that he had thoughts deeply established in Indian soil gives his poetry its distinctive power.

4. Individuality and independence It is widely assumed that Indian poetry in English has matured through independence and originality, having passed through the stages of imitation and national self-consciousness. This self-awareness and self-awareness were crucial in the creation of modern Indian poetry in English. The study of Ezekiel's workmanship and his representation of modern urban life has dominated most of the critical discourse on his poetry. 5. Skeptical Self Ezekiel's lyrical inclination is to organise his experiences around himself. From his first work, A Time To Change (1952), to his most recent collection of poems, LatterDay Psalms (1982), the same dominating, sceptical self observing and arranging the sensations of modern urban life can be found at the heart of his poetry. Ezekiel's work includes a significant section on the urban experience. The same may be said about rural life. Ezekiel was the first poet in English to allow for the inclusion of actual rural experience in Indian poetry. In his poems, he expresses a strong desire to grasp the purpose of his existence and achieve self-realization. Poetry appears to be the vehicle for achieving this purpose. "Ezekiel saw life as a journey where poetry would be the primary means of finding and arranging one's

existence," Chetan Karnani remarks, "and that there is a very strong relationship between his life and his poetry."

6. Rooted in Native Soil Ezekiel has attempted to connect himself with his surroundings, demonstrating that excellent poetry has its roots and stems in the natural soil. The poet, on the other hand, universalizes his environmental ethos via the flawless purity of his work.

7. Love In the world of Indo-English poetry, love has taken centre stage, and Ezekiel has exploited it to great creative effect. In his poetry, he has brilliantly depicted love and sensuality. He expresses himself appropriately in Indian circumstances and contexts with utmost frankness and honesty. From A Time To Change to LatterDay Psalms, he narrates his transformation from passionate desire to tranquil emotions of love. K.N. Daruwalla, Arun Kolatkar, Kamala Das, Gauir Deshpande, and O. P. Bhatnagar, all renowned Indian English poets of the post-Independence age, have followed the Ezekiel legacy of urbanity, affinity with the environment, art and sarcasm, and the significance of perfect form.

8. Cynicism To summarise, Nissim Ezekiel is one of the most important poets who has contributed to the development of English poetry. He was a bright Bombay intellectual who scornfully and sorrowfully expressed his sentiments to come to terms with himself, with overtones of sarcastic cynicism....