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    The Patriot: Nissim Ezekiel

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    Nissim Ezekiel was an Indian Jewish poet who wrote about contemporary Indian society and culture in English. He used elements of Indian English in his poems, such as the overuse of the "-ing" suffix and doubled verbs, to capture the cadences of Indian speech and highlight his Indian identity. His poems provided commentary on issues like caste discrimination and portrayed scenes of daily Indian life.

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    Nissim Ezekiel was an Indian Jewish poet who wrote about contemporary Indian society and culture in English. He used elements of Indian English in his poems, such as the overuse of the "-ing" suffix and doubled verbs, to capture the cadences of Indian speech and highlight his Indian identity. His poems provided commentary on issues like caste discrimination and portrayed scenes of daily Indian life.

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    Nissim Ezekiel was an Indian Jewish poet who wrote about contemporary Indian society and culture in English. He used elements of Indian English in his poems, such as the overuse of the "-ing" suffix and doubled verbs, to capture the cadences of Indian speech and highlight his Indian identity. His poems provided commentary on issues like caste discrimination and portrayed scenes of daily Indian life.

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    THE PATRIOT

    -NISSIM EZEKIEL

    THJHRT
    WHO IS A PATRIOT ??
    • A patriot was someone who loves their
    country and supports it, but won't blindly
    follow whatever their country's government
    does. -John Q Moron
    ABOUT NISSIM EZEKIEL!!
    • Nissim Ezekiel was an Indian Jewish poet,
    playwright, editor and art critic.

    • He was a foundational figure in postcolonial


    India's literary history, specifically for indian
    writing in English.

    • He's most famous for his wry commentaries on


    contemporary India - often written in an
    exaggerated 'Indian English'
    •
    • His father, Moses Ezekiel, was a professor of
    botany at Wilson College, and his mother was
    principal of her own school.

    • The Ezekiels belonged to Mumbai's Jewish


    community, known as the 'Bene Israel'

    • 1947, Ezekiel earned an BA in Literature from


    Wilson College, Mumbai, University of Mumbai

    • His 1ST poetry was published in 1952 called


    “the bad day”
    IMAGE OF INDIA IN NISSIM
    EZEKIEL’S POETRIES !!
    ☺In Hour of need to depict the Indianness or Indian
    sensibility Nissim Ezekiel is one of the last notable
    poets of the last 50s and 60s, who reveals the
    genuine Indian temperament, Indian sensibility that
    can be consider as the true Indianness .
    ☺In an autobiographical poem ‘Background Casually’ he
    himself being Jew-a minority in India depicts the
    trouble and traumas that he underwent throughout his
    life. He ridicules the cast barriers that make the
    people confine in to the narrow domestic wall .
    About his other poems.
    • In order to state his Indianness , he chooses to
    portray some familiar Indian scene. In the poem
    ‘In India’, he portrays the squalor, heat and
    ugliness of an Indian Metropolis.” The barbaric
    city sick with slums”-
    “ Always in the sun’s eye,
    here among the beggars,
    Hawkers, pavement sleepers,
    Hutment dwellers, slums etc”
    Contd…
    • Ezekiel’s Indianness can be seen from the way
    he has described a flood in Bihar.
    “ the villagers ran to them
    they slapped their bellies
    and whined;
    “ I have not eaten for three days”
    “ my husband has been washed away”
    “ my parents have abandoned me,”
    “ my son is dying,”
    “ I cannot find my daughter.””
    The –ing!!
    • Ezekiel has experimented with the use of
    typical Indian English. the poems reveals
    the common Indian mistakes of using
    present progressive tense in place of the
    simple present. The suffix,’-ing’ is used in
    a wrong manner unnecessarily; this is very
    typical for Indian users of English. It also
    brings out the random pour of Indian
    speech.
    The grammer !!
    • The usual compound form is 'Hinglish', a
    portmanteau of 'Hindi' and 'English’

    • Like most hybrid dialects, Indian English has its


    own curious set of structures

    • Indian languages use doubled verbs to indicate


    an ongoing action, hence phrases like "world is
    fighting fighting" in today's poem.
    • "I am simply not understanding" - the misuse of
    the continuous tense is rife in India.
    • "modern generation is neglecting" - another
    common mistake, the omission of the object of a
    transitive verb.
    • "Other day I'm reading newspaper" - Hindi
    doesn't have articles; hence eithertheir complete
    omission as in this sentence, or their
    replacement by numbers, as
    • "You want one glass lassi?".
    • To improve my English Language" - This one's a
    classic
    • "One goonda fellow" - Nouns are often used as
    adjectives, as also in "studentunrest fellow".
    • "All men are brothers, no?" - The interrogative
    'no?' at the end of the sentence
    • is common to many non-native speakers of
    English.

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