225 Among the adult fantasies Of sex and power-ridden lives, Refusing their hostilities His all-assenting art surviveSo Ezekiel goes on to trace the evolution of an artist. Jamini Roy started as a conventional paintero But the village of Bengal and Orissa gave him some idea of the new possibilities of folk art. Ezekiel refers to this fact in these lines: He started with a different style, He travelled, so he found his roots. His rage became a quiet smile Prolific in its proper fruitSo Jamini Roy was not an angry old painter but one at peace with his surroundings, like an ideal villager Hence, there is no protest, no conflict in his art. What impresses me most about Ezekiel is his remarkable sincerityo The last two stanzas of "Case Study"^ are an obvious reference to the poet himself, because he has frequently changed his jobSo It is often said that the rolling steone gathers no moss, but in this case, the rolling stone has gathered a few interesting verses: He worked at various jobs and then he stopped For reasons never clear nor quite approved By those who knew; some almost said he shopped Around for dreams and projects later dropped (Though this was quite untrue); he never moved Unless he found something he might have lovedo He came to me and this is what I said: "The pattern will remain unless you break It with a sudden jerk; but use your heade Not all returned as heroes who had fled In wanting both to have and eat the cake^ Not all who fail are counted with the fakeo In the above case, Ezekiel uses the depersonalised third person singular as his mask; while he uses the first person singular as his projected selfc With this strategy 9 he is able to point out precisely his state of mind in such poetic termsc Ezekiel's stark bluntness can be seen from the way he describes that complex relationship called "Marriage,"' wherein the initial excitement "Our love denied the primal Fall" is followed by a feeling of satiation: "The same thing over and over againo" After this, minor tensions and jealousy crop up as if the lovers had killed their natural selves: "Then suddenly the mark of