Ezekiel’s Poetry: A Rainbow of Paradoxes

Abstract

The paper is a study of Nissim Ezekiel’s views about India and its values and culture.  There is a discussion about the two different surroundings- urban and rural.  The dehumanizing influence of the city on human individuality is clearly perceptible in the gloomy expect of city life. As Ezekiel has been a city poet he has clearly presented the dehumanizing influence of the city on human individuality. He is quite frank and straightforward in exposing the ugliness, dirt, squalor, inhumanity and wickedness of the metropolis. Ezekiel asserts that the city is externally glamorous and dazzling but it provides no contentment to its inhabitants. His poetry is overflowing with Indian sensibility. The poetry of Ezekiel reveals a confluence of various trends and traditions of Indian English poetry and he becomes certainly a prototype of modern Indian English poetry. His poetry exemplifies the blend of the various trends of Indian English poetry.