NIssIM EZEKIEL’S CONCEPT OF POETIC ART

Abstract

There are so many poets in the world and the different poets of different languages have different
opinions concerned to the poetic art. As all intellectuals can never be satisfied with what has been said
about anything concerned to the field of poetry which is a unique literary art, has the capacity to
communicate more meaning than the words in ordinary language carry their meaning at their back.
Wordsworth called poetry spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings while Mathew Arnold called it
the criticism of life .To some it is the worship of beauty and few regard it as a cognitive reality coming
out of the inspired geniuses. When the poetic self is concentrated with cognitions, the poetry issuing
from it acquires the quality of prophecy. Poetry is an expression of emotive experience. Nissim Ezekiel
freed Indian English poetry from its typical slogans of nationalism, patriotism or other such things that
crowded in the poetic writings of the poets before Independence. He made his poetry a true voice of his
self. He treated life as a journey where poetry would be the chief source of discovering and organizing
one’s life. He believed in the force of ideas almost in the same manner as T.S. Eliot believed. Heart,
mind and soul all fuse into one and the poetry of great psychological realism comes out. Nissim Ezekiel
understands poetry as the record of the mind’s growth. So, Nissim Ezekiel has given his own idea which
is concerned to the enhanced poetic art. He fuses great emotion into his ideas of depth and wants to
create poetry that must have longer impact on the minds of the readers. He speaks from within inner
depths of his soul. Therefore, his poetry becomes a continuous search of his own self.
KEYWORDS- Endorsement, Existentialism, Empiricism, Philosophical, Transformation,
Metaphysical.