Indian English Poetry

Theme of Alienation and Search of Identity in Nissim Ezekiel Poetry

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According to M.K. Naik, a major shaping factor in Ezekiel’s poetry is that he belonged to a Bene – Israel family which migrated to India generations ago. Thus “substantially alienated from the core of the Indian ethos”, Ezekiel was acutely aware of this alienation by the fact that he had spent most of his life … Read more

Poem Enterprise by Nissim Ezekiel, Critical Summary

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Introduction of Poem: This poem “Enterprise” appeared in Nissim Ezekiel’s fourth volume of poems which was first published in 1960 and, in its second edition, in 1965, under the heading “The Unfinished Man”. Here we have an allegorical poem, that is, a poem which, apart from its surface meaning, has a meaning below the surface. … Read more