NIGHT OF SCORPION - THE CRITICAL APPRECIATION --------------------------------------- Night of the scorpion written by Nissim Ezkiel is an interesting poem and the poet brings about a very appealing contrast between good and evil in it; altogether giving the poem an essence of equality. The poet makes it a trouble-free task for the readers to visualize the scenes with the appropriate use of various imageries. He has also done a marvelous work of adding various different senses into the
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Nissim Ezekiel’s poems are as a rule lucid and are splendidly evocative and satisfyingly sensuous. His poetry reveals more careful craftsmanship‚ a more conscious intellectuality. In quality and integrity they are conversational directness and ease without losing himself in discursiveness. Let us take our Poet‚ lover‚ Birdwatcher where beauty and bareness of statement go together where it weaves the themes of birdwatching‚ wooing and writing poetry together‚ and shows their resemblance: the need
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Goodbye Party for Miss Pushpa. T.S. by Nissim Ezekiel Nissim Ezekiel is a popular figure in the field of Indian Writing in English. In his lifetime‚ he has written so many poems like “The Night of the Scorpion.” and “Enterprise‚” which are entertaining and enlightening. The poem‚” Goodbye Party for Miss.Pushpa” comes under his sixth volume of poems‚ namely “Hymns in Darkness.” The occasion is a farewell party given to Miss T.S. Pushpa by her friends and colleagues in her office when
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Nissim Ezekiel (Marathi: निस्सिम एझेकिएल; 14 December 1924 – 9 January 2004) was an Indian Jewish poet‚ playwright‚ editor andart-critic. He was a foundational figure in postcolonial India’s literary history‚ specifically for Indian writing in English. He was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1983 for his Poetry collection‚ "Latter-Day Psalms"‚ by the Sahitya Akademi‚ India’s National Academy of Letters.[1] Ezekiel was born on 16 December 1924 in Mumbai (Maharashtra). His father‚ Moses Ezekiel
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ENGLISH-A CLASS XI Full Marks – 100 1. Prose – 20 marks 2. Verse – 20 marks Textual Grammar – 16 marks 1. Essay writing [350-400 words] – 12 marks 2. Rhetoric – 12 marks 3. Project – 20 marks Prose and Poetry – (40 m/40P) Prose 1. One of these Days-Gabriel Garcia Marquez 2. The Sunder-bans Inheritance- Bittu Sehgal 3. Making Writing Simple- J.B. Priestley 4. Through the Tunnel- Dorris Lessing Poetry 1. Stolen Boat – William Wordsworth 2. You who never arrived – Rainer Maria Rilke 3. Snake- D H Lawrence
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It is important to read and discuss Mukherjee’s "A Wife’s Story" as an integral part of twentieth-century American literature and not as an "exotic" short story by a foreign writer. As the essay accompanying "A Wife’s Story" points out‚ Mukherjee identifies herself very strongly as an American writer writing about twentieth-century Americans. Although most of her stories are about South Asian-Americans (South Asia in the contemporary geopolitical arena usually consists of Bangladesh‚ India‚ Pakistan
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Night of the Scorpion-Nissim Ezekiel MATCHES: Two Scavengers in a Truck‚ Nothing’s Changed-Two Cultures Vultures‚ Limbo-Contrasting Views Nissim Ezekiel (White male poet): 1. Nissim Ezekiel was born in Bombay‚ now Mumbai‚ India in 1924. 2. His parents were Israeli and he was brought up with the Jewish faith‚ though he had friends of many different religions. 3. As a child he was very serious about religion and often spoke to his friends on a deep scale in relation to religious matters
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godhead beyond Time‚ There comes no voice of the celestial Friend‚ And yet I know my footprints’ track shall be A pathway towards Immortality. ************************************************************** Poet‚ Lover‚ Birdwatcher Nissim Ezekiel. To force the pace and never to be still Is not the way of those who study birds Or women. The best poets wait for words. The hunt is not an exercise of will But patient love relaxing on a hill To note the movement of a timid wing;
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About The Poet: Goodbye Party For Miss Pushpa T. S. was written by Nissim Ezekiel‚ one of India’s foremost Indo-Anglian poets. He was born in 1924 and was educated in Mumbai and London. He produced several volumes of verse and plays and was an art critic. Ezekiel died in 2004 at the age of 79. Most of Ezekiel’s poetry is for adults‚ as it is serious and quite difficult to understand. In this poem‚ however‚ Ezekiel uses simple Indian’ English. Here he is making gentle fun of the people who
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Jayanta Mahapatra is one of the best known Indian English poets. Perhaps any discussion on Indian English Poetry is incomplete without reference to his poetical works. Physicist‚ bilingual poet and essayist‚ Jayanta Mahapatra holds the distinction of being the first Indian English poet to have received the Sahitya Akademi Award (1981) for Relationship. In 2009 he was awarded by Government of India with "Padmashree Award"‚ country’s most prestigious award for civilian citizen for his out standing
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