

It should be taken in the spirit in which it was written. The poem is in the form of a speech made by one of Miss Pushpa's friends. BEST POEMS ABOUT FAREWELL Have A Nice Day Spike Milligan Help, help, said a man. It’s an ideal invite if your guest list is full of good friends and your going away party will be full of good times. There are grammatical mistakes, strange arrangements of words and phrases and idioms which are direct translations of expressions in Indian languages - they all sound very odd in English. Bright and cheery and full of fun, this invitation makes it feel like farewell is only for now, not forever. Here he is making gentle fun of the people who cannot speak English properly by including in the poem common mistakes made by speakers whose mother tongue is not English. In this poem, however, Ezekiel uses simple Indian' English. They're calling to you too.' Darkly he rose, and then I slept. 'No, go I must, they're calling me.' 'Who are they' Rising he said 'Some day you'll know. Most of Ezekiel's poetry is for adults, as it is serious and quite difficult to understand. ‘ In my dreams I am always saying goodbye and riding away’: so opens this poem by one of the twentieth century’s most distinctive poetic voices, in which the speaker revels in the freedom that saying goodbye can provide. 'Go back to sleep now Frank, and I may leave a tiny poem in that brain of yours as my farewell.' 'Sun, don't go' I was awake at last.

He produced several volumes of verse and plays and was an art critic.

He was born in 1924 and was educated in Mumbai and London. was written by Nissim Ezekiel, one of India's foremost Indo-Anglian poets.
