LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 20:8 August 2020
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Urban Sensibility and Indian Sensibility in
the Poetical Works of Nissim Ezekiel

Dr. S. Chelliah, M.A, Ph.D.

Abstract

This paper is an attempt to project Nissim Ezekiel as one of the most prominent Indian poets writing in English, not only as a conscientious artist but also a fine metrical artist with a high conception of his art using the right word at the right place, with a special focus on the projection of ‘Urban Sensibility’ and ‘Indian Sensibility’ in his poetry. As a poet of the city, Ezekiel has proved himself to be a man of Urban Sensibilities being fully alive to the ugliness, dirt, squalor and wickedness of a city like Bombay pointing out the dehumanizing discomforts of urban life, and in his poetic realm, he projects, no doubt, a wide panorama of Indian society with its multiracial, multi-cultural and multi-religious character. It beautifully examines how the world of Ezekiel’s poetry is, through art, inflamed by a broad deep Indian sympathy towards the human race in general and for the poor, the depressed, the oppressed and the suffering Indians in particular.

Keywords: Nissim Ezekiel, Prominent, conscientious, metrical, high conception, dehumanizing, discomforts, deep sympathy, urban sensibility, Indian sensibility.

Nissim Ezekiel, one of the most prominent Indian poets writing in English, is both a conscientious artist and a fine metrical artist with a high conception of his art using the right word at the right place. Being a prolific writer, he has published, besides many verses in various literature journals and magazines, six anthologies of poems. ‘A Time to Change’, ‘Sixty Poems’, ‘The Third’, ‘The Unfinished Men’, ‘The Exact name’ and ‘The Hymns in Darkness’ and ‘Poster Poems’ are the collection of his poems. A study of his poetry reveals a gradual evolution of poetic art and genius. Besides poetry, he tried his hand at plays like Nalini, The Sleep Walkers, Song of Deprivation and a few other literary essays and articles including books on Art Criticism and Social criticism. However, Ezekiel is known primarily for his poetic creations.

Such a well-established poet Nissim Ezekiel was born in Bombay on Dec 14, 1924. A Jew by ancestry, he made India his home. He received his school education at Antonio D’Souza high school and college education from Wilson College, Bombay and Birkbeck College, London. After high studies at London, Ezekiel returned to India and worked for some time as Professor and Head of the Department of English, Mittibhai College of Arts, Bombay. Then he worked as a Reader in American Literature in the University of Bombay till his retirement in 1985. After retirement, he kept himself busy in literary activities through PEN-a form of poets, essayists a number of journals like The Quest, The Illustrated Weakly of India, The Indian Poetry Series, and for sometimes he was holding the post of Director for Theatre Unit in Bombay. Thus Nissim Ezekiel is said to have had varied interests, through which he has inspired many other Indian poets to write in this foreign Language.

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Dr. S. Chelliah, M.A, Ph.D.
Professor, Head and Chairperson
School of English & Foreign languages & School of Indian Languages
Madurai Kamaraj University
MADURAI-21, Tamilnadu, India
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