Nissim Ezekiel has contributed prominently in the development of the major trends of modern Indian poetry in English. Ezekiel's poetry depicts the existence of the individual in several spaces. These spaces are influenced and often distorted by the social and cultural discourses when the individual interact with society and other people living in that society. These influences and distortions often threaten the existential space of the individual. Culture becomes an important deciding factor in carving out the existential space of the individual. Ezekiel's poems are often autobiographical in nature. In his poems Ezekiel depicts his various experiences of conflicts that occur due to the difference of cultural background and ancestral past. In his poetry we see how this cultural conflict gives rise to the identity crises for the individual that result in various problems that threaten the existence of the individual. Ezekiel's poetry often shows the poet's tendency to search for a spiritual salvation after getting frustrated with the external chaos and conflicts that arise due to the cultural conflicts which pose a threat to the existence of the individual. Ezekiel's poems like, “Background, Casually”, “Poem of the Separation”, “Enterprise”, “In India” are few examples from the vast corpus of Ezekiel's poetry that deal with the issues discussed above. In this paper I focus on the individual, as depicted by Ezekiel in his poetry, along with its existential problems that result from various cultural conflicts. An analysis of these conflicts gives a better insight into the life of the individual