Unit 1- Poem 2 Enterprise – Nissim Ezekiel It started as a pilgrimage‚ Exalting minds and making all the burdens light. The second stage explored but did not test the call. The sun beat down to match our rage. We stood it very well‚ I thought‚ observed and put down copious notes on things the peasants sold and bought‚ the way of serpents and of goats‚ three cities where a sage had taught. But when the differences arose‚ on how to cross a desert
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Promoting the Culture of Peace in the World - James Ramdinmawia Aizawl‚ Mizoram‚ India "I am standing for Peace and Non-violence. Why the world is fighting fighting Why the people of the world Are not following Mahatma Gandhi" -Nissim Ezekiel Introduction: No doubt‚ the world is a vast battle-field where almost every nation fights each other. Every nation has its own military equipments. What are these for? They are only for fighting other nations whenever a war breaks out. This
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Qualities of Indianness in Indian English Poetry Indian Poets writing in English around fifties have produced a fairly voluminous body of verse that is often deeply rooted in the traditional Indian sensibility and is yet strikingly modern in expression. The question of Indianness is not merely a question of the material of poetry‚ or even sensibility‚ it is tied up with the factor called the audience. Indian English poets write for Indian audience‚ but they also write quite inevitably‚ for non-Indian
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Book jacket Mario’s drawings were spontaneous reaction to the world as he saw it. His work reflect the zest that made possible the society he was in. For e.g Bombay during the seventies and eighties. An avid traveller he has also depicted in depth the life in Jerusalem‚ New York‚ Paris‚ Macau‚ Singapore‚ Tokyo etc. ___________________________________________________________________________________ Biography
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First person narrative portrays the story through the eyes of Nissim and shows that we are seeking exactly what he did. Ezekiel uses alliteration to describe the moment of the sting: ’Parting with his poison’. He alludes to evil in the phrase ’diabolic tail’‚ comparing the scorpion to the devil. The poem is written in free verse with different line lengths and no rhyme…The theme of the poem is presented through an incident in which the poet’s mother is bitten by a scorpion on rainy night. The villagers
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Introduction Edward Kamau Brathwaite: Limbo Tatamkhulu Afrika: Nothing’s Changed Grace Nichols: Island Man Imtiaz Dharker: Blessing Lawrence Ferlinghetti: Two Scavengers... Nissim Ezekiel: Night of the Scorpion Chinua Achebe: Vultures Denise Levertov: What Were They Like? Sujata Bhatt: from Search For My Tongue Tom Leonard: from Unrelated Incidents John Agard: Half-Caste Derek Walcott: Love After Love Imtiaz Dharker: This Room Niyi Osundare: Not My Business Moniza Alvi: Presents from
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social themes because it helps his experiences an utterly modern shape. Consequently irony becomes one of the most outstanding features of writing. Modern poetry places it first rather than other literary features. Shiv K. Kumar‚ K.N.Daruwalla‚‚ Nissim Ezekiel‚ R.Parthasarthy etc. can be counted as the greatest ironists in modern poetry. In this paper we analysis Ezekiel’s poetry in order to know his ironic mode. Ezekiel’s poetry is ironical and reveals different kinds of ironies such as subtle
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themselves into the culture. They did not feel connected to the country where they lived‚ nor did they feel connected to the country of their birth. Hence a feeling of rootlessness emerged which can be seen in the writings of several poets. Poets like Ezekiel‚ Jussawala‚ Ramanujan are further alienated in the field of Indian English literature‚ not just by their English language
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poets. Such Indianisation had been proceeding for several generations and is prominent in the poetry of Kamala Das and Pritish Nandy and present although more nuanced in the work ofKeki N.Daruwalla it is more likely to be felt in the verse of Nissim Ezekiel and Jayanta Mahapatra or in the kind of rapidly expressed ironies found in the poetry of Ramanujan. The modern poets as a group tended to be marginal to traditional Hindu society not only by being alienated by their English language education
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IIIrd Semester Syllabus for Core and Applied Component Courses in English. St. Xavier’s College –Autonomous‚ Mumbai. St. Xavier’s College – Autonomous Mumbai Syllabus For IIIrd Semester Courses in ENGLISH (June 2013 onwards) Contents: Syllabus for Courses: A.ENG.3.01 – The Elements of Poetry A.ENG.3.02 – Indian Writing in English 1850-1980 A.ENG.3.MS -- Media Studies (Applied Component) Page 1 of 4 IIIrd Semester Syllabus for Core and Applied Component Courses in English. St. Xavier’s
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