International Journal of English Research

Authors
Dr. Vishnu Kumar Sharma, Dr. Mahesh Kumar Sharma

Abstract
The present article deals with the impact of westernization on Nissim Ezekiel’s poetry. Human nature is the fount whence Ezekiel’s poetry springs. Ezekiel has delved deeply into the realms of Indian culture and what his eyes have seized is his poetry. With him the vernal breeze of new poetry bursts into the castle of Indian English poetry to sweep the long existed cobwebs away. His poetic corpus is boundless, endless and sublime; the real image of modern India. His poems are the most precious pearls culled from Indian cultural tributaries; unsurpassed to date. His poetry is an arch dome made from Indian culture but a little damaged by westernization. The focus has been on how he has managed to present the impact of westernization on Indian culture with a style clad in good uniform of thoughts, how he has made a perfect balance between Indian culture and the western culture in his poetry, how he has painted the woman in different roles and finally how he has amazingly combined the secular and religious themes in his love poems. Above all, this study, undertaken in the manner presented in this work, will not only provide the reader with insights into the workings of poetry, but also encourage him to think afresh about the nature of that complex phenomenon we call westernization.