One of the best contemporary Indian English poets is Nissim Ezekiel (1924–2004). Ezekiel's open style and material in his corpus drew significant critical attention from academics in India and beyond. The poems in his body are replete with authentic details. This study analyzes the presence of social realism in selected poems by Nissim Ezekiel. The primary goal of this study is to analyze Nissim Ezekiel's usage of various motifs and to highlight the many ways in which the symbols and pictures he employs in his poetry not only capture the reader's attention but also convey a wealth of ideas and values. The research, however, interprets Ezekiel as an Indian poet who wrote in English and who used a variety of conventional and non-traditional, abstract and tangible imagery and symbols to describe his experience, observation of man, and society. He focused on specific images to convey an altered state of mind in his poetry. The current work draws mostly from Collected Poems (1976), with secondary material drawn from Ezekiel's books labeled The Unfinished Man, The Exact Name, and Hymns in Darkness. The corpus of Ezekiel's poetry works clearly evokes the works of prominent poets from various periods, such as Ezra Pound, Yeats, Dylan Thomas, etc., via the use of functional imagery and symbolism.

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