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Nissim Ezekiel enjoys the status of father- figure in the field of Indo- Anglian poetry. He, along with Kamala Das and Ramanujan, shares the position of one of the foremost Indian poets writing in English. He is an Indian Jew who has lived most of his life in India. Thus, he is a keen observer of Indian life and as a poet he experienced much more of Indian sensibilities and behaviour than other contemporary native poets. He has enriched Indo- Anglian poetry and also gave it a new dimension. The present paper is an attempt to explore the multitude of themes in the various poems of Nissim Ezekiel. He is an Indian poet who at sometimes felt alienated in this country. He is also a post- colonial poet whose poetry seems to be a quest for identity and harmony in life. His poetry depicts the tension of two opposites – his effort to involve himself emotionally in life and his desire to detach from it. His poetic bent of mind has the questioning spirit and skepticism like that of a modern poet. His manner of portraying his themes also makes him distinctive in poetic style.