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THE PATRIOT

-NISSIM EZEKIEL

THJHRT

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WHO IS A PATRIOT ??

A patriot was someone who loves their 

country and supports it, but won't blindly

follow whatever their country's governmentdoes. -John Q Moron

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ABOUT NISSIM EZEKIEL!!

Nissim Ezekiel was an Indian Jewishpoet, playwright, editor and art critic.

He was a foundational figure inpostcolonial India's literary history,specifically for indian writing in English.

He's most famous for his wrycommentaries on contemporary India -often written in an exaggerated 'IndianEnglish'

His father, Moses Ezekiel, was aprofessor of botany atWilson College,

and his mother was principal of her own school.

The Ezekiels belonged to Mumbai'sJewish community, known as the'Bene Israel'

1947, Ezekiel earned an BA inLiterature fromWilson College,Mumbai, University of Mumbai

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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 thegenuine Indian temperament, Indian sensibility that

can be consider as the true Indianness .

In an autobiographical poem µBackground 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 .

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 About his other poems.

In order to state his Indianness , he chooses to

portray some familiar Indian scene. In the poem

µIn India¶, he portrays the squalor, heat and

ugliness of an Indian Metropolis.´ The barbariccity sick with slums´-

³ Always in the sun¶s eye,

here among the beggars,

Hawkers, pavement sleepers,

Hutment dwellers, slums etc´

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Contd«

Ezekiel¶s Indianness can be seen from the way

he has described a flood in Bihar.

³ the villagers ran to them

they slapped their bellies

and whined;

³ I have not eaten for three days´

³ my husband has been washed away´

³ my parents have abandoned me,´

³ my son is dying,´

³ I cannot find my daughter.´´

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The ±ing!!

Ezekiel has experimented with the use of 

typical Indian English. the poems reveals

the common Indian mistakes of usingpresent 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 alsobrings out the random pour of Indian

speech.

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The grammer !!

The usual compound form is 'Hinglish', aportmanteau of 'Hindi' and 'English¶

Like most hybrid dialects, Indian English has itsown curious set of structures

Indian languages use doubled verbs to indicate

an ongoing action, hence phrases like "world isfighting fighting" in today's poem.

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"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 atransitive verb.

"Other day I'm reading newspaper" - Hindidoesn't have articles; hence eithertheir complete

omission as in this sentence, or their replacement by numbers, as

"You want one glass lassi?".

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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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