Nissim ezeikle

                 #  Nissim ezeikle # poem # 

        

           " The best poets wait for words " 

     Nissim ezeikle was born in 16 Dec 1924 ,    

     Died in 9 Jan 2004 .

     Nissim ezeikle was an indain jewish poet , 

     Play writer and critic . He has been known 

    as the Father of post Independence Indian  

    Verse in english . His works of poetry include "  The night of the scorpion " ," The Deadly man" etc ....  

Poem :                 " The patriot " 

 

              Naissim  wrote  sixty poems , he was versatile genius and most outstanding Indiana English poet . His all poems have a great effect on the readers .  One of his best poem " The patriot " ........    This poem was written in 1977.

The poem The patriot  is an ironical poem that criticize the Indains of adoptiong foreign habits . The narrator of the poem is a patriot . 

Patriotism is a much bigger concept , yet  Naissim prefers to define it with simple language , we all have adopting from foreign culture . It is narratored in the first person point of view , the poem forty six lines . 

                            Mahatma gandhi 

                              Non violence 

Fighting                                                    Indiraben

Fighting                                                      goonda

 Indain - pakistan                                        Fellow 

    China  wars 

                                                                    Time of 

                                           The                      india                                                 patriot

Funny language                                           

Funny                                                          Indian 

Habits                                                            Food 

                                                               Lassi/wine

Gujaratis

Maharashtrians

Hindiwallahs                            Ram Rajya

            

" I am standing for peace and non - violence "

The narrator is a patriot and claim that he stands for peace and non violence . He question by this line ,  why the world is fighting fighting and why we are not following leader like Mahatma gandhi and his wisdom . The meaning of fighting it is presented stress . The violence is not important but we achieve our goal to follows mahatma gandhi way ahinsa . 

                  Fashion - foreign things 

In next lines , narrator describe that the ancient

Indian wisdom is absolutely correct , not just 100% but 200% correct , There is clearly no such thing as 200% , it is a showed on how true

the wisdom is for the narrator . He describe that he feels very sad to see that modern generations neglects  this  wisdom of ancient india . His heart is broken to see that modern generations is busy with fashion and things which made in foreign countries . 

 

                Reading - political - newspaper

The narrator was reading ' the time of india ' 

an English newspaper to improving his English 

rather than read the news , it is ironical . He says that he reads that a fellow threw a stone at indira gandhi , next ,  how we are habituated of foreign culture , yet he read a an English newspaper to improving foreign language .

 The fellows that threw at indira gandhi must be student . He speaks may be student need a 

Patients . "Friends , Romans , countrymen ,  I am saying , Lend  me the ears " the line of shakespeare , again referring to foreign language . It can be considered as a appreciation of the language .  

           " You want one glass lassi ? " 

The poem suddenly makes a shift from present political situation to a glass of lassi . Also makes a comparison between lassi and wine , 

Lassi is an indain drink that helps digestion . 

It is better than wine . Them poet immediately makes it clear that he has never tasted wine . Also speak wine for drunkards only . 

            " All men are brothers , no ? " 

Then again he tolk about political situation , after he questions about peace ? . He was worried about the attitude of pakistan and china towards india . The narrator was very much disturbed by it .  He said that both were not behaving properly . He also said that he feels sad to see all this , Now he started talking about brotherhood , all of us are brothers and sisters . Even though the Gujaratis , Maharashtrians , Hindiwallahs all were brothers and sisters , some have funny habits,

different people in Indian have different funny habits , they tolerate each other .At last  the speaker was sure about  Ram Rajya to come  one day . 

                    " You are going ? "

The poet was not believe in ceremony . Now the Listener were perhaps bored and were about to go . They not believe in ceremony , but tells him that he was always welcome . 

 Conclusion  : 

                            The poem is written in colloquial language , to relates to English speaking Indians . This poem has touches of the post Independence  era and how Indians pick up habits of foreigners even after Independence . 

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