LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 15:11 November 2015
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
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Selected Themes in Nissim Ezekiel’s Poems

M. Archana Devi, M.A., M.Phil.

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Nissim Ezekiel’s Poems

Nissim Ezekiel is one of the most productive talents and is one of the most distinctive poetic personalities of modern India. Having produced seven volumes of poetry, he is acknowledged as an established Indian-English poet of the post-Independence era. He provided an example of a poet intellectually and morally concerned with making poetry out of experiences. In his poetry, there is the truth of acknowledging what is felt and experienced in its complexity, contradictions, pleasures, fears and disillusionments without preconceived ideas of what poetry should say about the poet and life.

Modernizing Indian English Poetry

Ezekiel’s place in Indian English poetry is permanent and assured. His greatest contribution lies in modernising poetry, in giving it themes and technique in consonance with the spirit of the age. His poetry is the main link between pre-Independence and post-Independence Indian poetry in English. He brought an urban touch to poetry and with the help of irony and mild satire exposes the evils of urban society. Michael German rightly comments on his contribution to poetry: He brings to the established traditions of love, religion and the passing hour, the modern attitude of the need for a commitment, an existential plunge into life, and of old analytic disgust, becoming more ironical and detached as he develops. (Satish Kumar, SIEP 193)

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Mrs. M. Archana Devi, M.A., M.Phil.
Assistant Professor of English
Sri Kaliswari College (Autonomous)
Sivakasi - 626123
Virudhunagar District
Tamilnadu, India
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