Nissim Ezekiel (14.12.1924-9.1.2004) was an Indian Jewish poet,playwright,editor and art critic. He has become a legend in his lifetime and modern Indian poetry in English owes much to him. Ezekiel has had diverse interests and varied phases in his career. However he has always been interested in writing poetry and has always realized that his roots are very well in India. Ezekiel's poetry is simple, intros pectic and analytical. He is highly disciplined and unpretentious. His skillful use of prosody,restraint,conversational style,mastery of irony,purity of diction and perfect control over emotion place him on the top of the contemporary Indian poets in English.
Ezekiel has written on a variety of subjects. Love and sex,the problem of marriage,the Indian contemporary scene,modern urban life,the need to overcome alienation and to create integration among the various aspects of his character are Ezekiel's major themes. The theme of alienation is central to all his poetry. His Jewish background makes him a natural out stander. But Ezekiel has made it categorically clear that he belongs to India.
Ezekiel was born in Mum bay,where he lived most of his life. his parents were English-and-Marathi speaking modern Bene-Israel Indian Jews who encouraged active,productive,secular lives. His father was a Professor of Botany and Zoology,his mother was a school teacher,then a founder and principal of a Marathi language primary school. After attending a catholic school in Mumbay he did his B.A at Wilson college and he actively involved in trade unionism and in M N. Roy's Radical Democratic Movement.* He married Daisy Gabriel in 1952.
Ezekiel , who was already part of the Mumbay intellectual scene, was a friend of Ibrahim Alkazi who gave him a one-way ticket to England so he could educate himself in contemporary culture. For three-and-a-half years in London he supported himself through such poorly paying jobs as clerk and dishwasher. He studied philosophy ,attended poetry readings and had poems accepted in such literary magazines as "poetry Quarterly"
Ezekiel has written on a variety of subjects. Love and sex,the problem of marriage,the Indian contemporary scene,modern urban life,the need to overcome alienation and to create integration among the various aspects of his character are Ezekiel's major themes. The theme of alienation is central to all his poetry. His Jewish background makes him a natural out stander. But Ezekiel has made it categorically clear that he belongs to India.
Ezekiel was born in Mum bay,where he lived most of his life. his parents were English-and-Marathi speaking modern Bene-Israel Indian Jews who encouraged active,productive,secular lives. His father was a Professor of Botany and Zoology,his mother was a school teacher,then a founder and principal of a Marathi language primary school. After attending a catholic school in Mumbay he did his B.A at Wilson college and he actively involved in trade unionism and in M N. Roy's Radical Democratic Movement.* He married Daisy Gabriel in 1952.
Ezekiel , who was already part of the Mumbay intellectual scene, was a friend of Ibrahim Alkazi who gave him a one-way ticket to England so he could educate himself in contemporary culture. For three-and-a-half years in London he supported himself through such poorly paying jobs as clerk and dishwasher. He studied philosophy ,attended poetry readings and had poems accepted in such literary magazines as "poetry Quarterly"
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