Alienation and search for identity in Ezekiel

The article captioned ‘Alienation and Search for Identity in Ezekiel’ purports to explore some of the poems of Nissim Ezekiel in which he deals with Indian culture, belief in national integration and his hope for the advent of a new era of happiness and prosperity. He basically focuses on the grim realities of human life and sufferings of Indian people. In various poems he dwells upon the Indian poverty, religions, cultures, East-West tension and cultural conflict. He also depicts postcolonial aspects in his poems. He faithfully delineates his quest for identity in rural India. Alienation and search for identity constitute the core of his poetic oeuvre. Apart from this he successfully depicts image of pagan woman and beauty of nature in most of his poems. Further, ontological, biographical and exegetical methods have been adopted.