Why Nissim Ezekiel was known as Father of Contemporary Indian English Poetry??????
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The poet most important to consider in the postcolonial and modern South Asian English poetry is Nissim Ezekiel (b. 1924). Significant postcolonial South Asian English poetry is modern in the sense that it breaks away, in content and in style, from the English poetry of the region as it was written during the colonial period. The poetry of the colonial days by and large imitated the British models, was inflated in language, and artificial and abstract in the subject matter because it either existed in an unreal pseudo- English world or was ridden by a chauvinistic self-consciousness about India's past heritage and present political concerns. It was divorced from both naturalness of expression and the immediate inner and outer realities of the Indian experience. Postcolonial poetry, on the other hand, assiduously moved away from these tendencies to address the actualities of experience honestly in an honest and appropriate language. In the process, it ceased to be unreal and imitative and became in its own right a genre parallel to British, American, and other Western modern English poetry. Nissim Ezekiel may be justifiably called the father of post-independence and modern poetry of India and, through the influence of Indian literature on the entire subcontinent, the father of the postcolonial South Asian English poetry as well.
Ezekiel enriched and established Indian English language poetry through his modernist innovations and techniques, which enlarged Indian English literature. The jacket of his Collected Poems 1952–1988 describes Nissim Ezekiel as India's best-known English-language poet. The claim is probably justified. Certainly, justified is the claim that he helped initiate the postromantic phase of modern Indian poetry in English. Although there are signs of a reaction against his mode of poetry and even a re-evaluation of his role in the history of English-language poetry in India, his place is secure.
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