Question

Summary of the poem 'the professor '

Answer 1

The Professor by Nissim Ezekiel is a satirical poem written in the form of a conversation between a professor and his student. Its written in the way of criticizing a person. Actaully a proffessor is a person who  must be proper in the way of his teaching but in this it is he is not proper. it is written in a very humourous way in which the proffessor makes fun of himself.

Answer 2

The Professor by Nissim Ezekiel is a satirical poem written in the form of a conversation between a professor and his student. A satire is way of criticizing a person, an idea or something where the poet uses humour to point out their faults and weaknesses. Here, the professor makes fun of himself by the way he speaks or thinks. A professor is someone who should be proper in his subject or the medium he teaches. But the professor in The Professor is caricatured because of his erroneous dialect. A Professor can also be called a monologue because one can find that the professor speaks but listener does not say a word. The poem is composed in Indian English and the poet mocks Indians who finds prestigious to speak in English, even when they are not so good in it, rather than in their mother tongue.