Rattle and Bustle of Urban Life in the Poetry of Nissim Ezekiel, R. Parthasarathy and R.K. Singh

Abstract

Urban life has become an integral part of modern poetics. The city squalor, crowds and decay constantly figure in modern and postmodern poetry, whether Western or Indian. Squalor, dirtiness, seediness, poverty, exploitation and all other manifestations of urbanization are described with horrid reality by a number of modern and postmodern Indian English poets. In contemporary Indian English poetry, there is also a growing attack on humdrum existence on urban life., Nissim Ezekiel is one of the most notable post-independence Indian English writers in verse. Ezekiel attracts readers from other countries also as his poetry gives them the flavour that is India, the real India. He has added a new dimension to the treatment of urban life. The dehumanizing influence of urbanization on individuality is described with utmost clarity in Ezekiel's poetry. R. Parthasarathy, one of the major poets of Indian English literature and R.K. Singh, a notable postmodern Indian English poet describe graphically the urban cape with Ezekielean poignancy of expression. They also present a comprehensive picture of urban life in its different manifestations