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The scorpion's sting brings villagers to the family's home, where they offer prayers and traditional remedies. The speaker, a young boy, witnesses the pain of his mother and the desperate attempts to save her.
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‘The Night of the Scorpion’ is the story of one night in which the mother of the speaker is stung by a poisonous scorpion. She suffers for twenty hours while peasants, holy men, and her husband attempt to heal her. They try curses, blessings, prayers, herbs, and all forms of ancient medicine that are not practiced in most of the modern world. Their...
Stanzas One and Two
This poem begins at the beginning, with the speaker telling the story of how his mother was stung by a scorpion. Ezekiel does not use unnecessary phrasing or extra words, he gets right to the point. He describes how the scorpion had been driven inside by “steady rain” and had decided to hide beneath a “sack of rice.” This first stanza is only four lines, a choice Ezekiel makes to urge the story forward. A quick succession of stanzasallows for the poem to flow faster. The second stanza proceed...
Stanza Three
Throughout this piece, Ezekiel makes a number of language choices that continue to reference the movements and parts of different insects.These descriptors are very prevalent in the third stanza. He describes the actions of the peasants as being like swarms of flies, they “buzzed” God’s name in the hope of paralyzing the “Evil One.” The image that Ezekiel creates here is clear, the reader can easily visualize a swarm of people coming down on the speaker’s mother, all with good intentions, but...
Stanza Four
The fourth stanza contains seven lines and describes the hunt that the peasants embark on in an effort to find the scorpion. They search with both candles and lanterns, which throw shadows on the wall in the shape of a scorpion. This image of the scorpion still being in the room (only in the form of shadow) helps set the scene for the next lines as the peasants struggle to help the mother. The shadow is representative of their primitive fears, that something Evil is lurking just where they ca...
Nassim Ezekialwas born in Bombay in 1924 as part of Bombay’s Jewish community. He attended Wilson College in Mumbai and received a BA in Literature. After graduating he taught English literature and continued his studies at Birkbeck College, London where he studied Philosophy. He was married and published his first collection of poetry in 1952, The...
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- October 9, 1995
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“Night of the Scorpion” is a free-verse narrative poem that describes the events of a night when the narrator’s mother was stung by a scorpion. Ezekiel does not use a set rhyme scheme or meter in the poem.
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Night of the Scorpion," included in the AQA Anthology, is a poem written by the Indian Jewish poet, Nissim Ezekiel. Summary [ edit ] It starts in a house at night where it is raining and a scorpion, in order to take some shelter, comes to the house.
Night of the Scorpion. Nissim Ezekiel. The story, that the speaker’s mother being stung by a scorpion serves to illuminate the culture in rural India — relationship with nature, with ...
1 nov 2023 · The scorpion sting the mother received on a dark, rainy night attracts many people, all out to heal her pain. Will the superstitious triumph over the rational? A child watches as the story unfolds.
Night of the Scorpion by Nissim Ezekiel Summary. The poem opens in a way that recommends reflection—the speaker recollects the night his own mother was stung by a scorpion, which bit his mother as a result of its savage drive, while stowing away underneath a sack of rice to escape from the rain.
