Nissim ezekiel a poet of india

1. ● Presented By:- Aditi Vala
● MA Sem:- 03
● Paper no. :- 202: Indian English
Literature -Post-Idependence
● Topic :- Nissim Ezekiel - a poet of
India
● Roll no. :- 01
● Submitted By:- S.B.Gardi Department
of English , MKBU

2. Nissim Ezekiel
- a poet of
India

3. : Nissim Ezekiel :
Born: 16 December 1924, Mumbai
Died: 9 January 2004, Mumbai
● Nissim Ezekiel was an Indian
Jewish poet, actor, playwright,
editor and art critic.
● He was a foundational figure in
postcolonial India's literary
history, specifically for Indian
Poetry in English.

4. ● Nissim Ezekiel (1924-2004), a pioneering
Indian English poet, incorporates both
romantic and modern elements into his
poetry.
● Romantic in the early career, he
subsequently resolves to redesign his
poetic world with the images of urbanity,
and so contemporary India takes a leading
space in his poetry.
:An Indian Poet :

5. : Contributions :
● Ezekiel enriched and established English poetry in India.
● His modernist innovations and techniques enlarged the
scope of Indian English literature, moving it beyond purely
spiritual and orientalist themes, to include a wider range of
concerns and interests, including mundane familial events,
individual angst and skeptical societal introspection.
● He was awarded five years later for his contributions to
Indian-English writing.

7. His poetic Style is modern, restrained and
conversational.
● Very Indian poem in Indian English
● The effect of Transfer From one level to another
● A complete Indian atmosphere
● Commonly noticed
● Social Satire
● Philosophic Idea
● High Imagination
: Some Features used in poem :

8. : Free Verse :
● Nissim Ezekiel was a master of free verse, which
is characterized by the matching of rhythm with
theme and emotion, He has mirrored his views on
fellow beings, society and the problems of
common man in his free verse.

9. : Themes :
● The power of language
● Indian Identity
● Scepticism
● Memory
● Poetry
● Religion
● The difference between the city and
nature

10. : Collection of Poems :
He has written many volumes of poems;
● A Time to Change (1952),
● Sixty Poems (1953),
● The Third (1959),
● The Unfinished Man (1960),
● The Exact Name (1965) ,
● Snakeskin and other poem
● Latter - Day Psalms (1982)

11. ● His plays Nalini, Marriage Poem, The Sleep-
Walkers, Songs of Deprivation and Who Needs
No Introduction are already staged and
published.
● He has also edited books Indian Writers in
Conference (1964), Writing in India (1965), An
Emerson Reader (1965), A Martin Luther King
Reader (1965) and Arthur Miller's All My Sons
(1972)

12. : Awards :
● Sahitya Akademi award - 1983
● Padma Shri - 1988

13. : Refrence :
● Dulai, Surjit S. “NISSIM EZEKIEL : The Father of Contemporary Indian
English Poetry.” Journal of South Asian Literature, vol. 35, no. 1/2, Asian
Studies Center, Michigan State University, 2000, pp. 123–77,
http://www.jstor.org/stable/40873766.
● GradeSaver "The Poems of Nissim Ezekiel Themes". GradeSaver, 9
October 2021. Web. 9 October 2021.
● http://www.literary-articles.com/2013/11/nissim-ezekiel-as-indian-
poet-writing.html?m=1
● "Nissim Ezekiel Biography and latest books by Nissim Ezekiel".
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