Discuss the style and themes of the poems of Nissim Ezeikel with special reference to the poems prescribed in your course

Ezekiel's poems often touch upon language and the writing process. In "A Time to Change," Ezekiel imagines the poet as "a stubborn workman" who must toil over language in order to reach towards "the perfect poem." This "perfect poem" is characterized by "precise communication of a thought" (p 5). In "On Meeting a Pedant," Ezekiel revokes language, which is "cold as print" and "insidious" for the pleasures of the world: "Give me touch of men and give me smell of / Fornication, pregnancy and spices" (p 9).

Another example of the theme of the power and limits of language in Ezekiel's work is "A Word for the Wind," which laments the speaker's inability to find a word for the wind besides the ones which are already assigned ___ ______ __________ ______ __________ ___ __________ ___ _____.
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