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Night of the Scorpion Nissim Ezekiel Dr. Ch. Anuradha,

Night of the Scorpion Nissim Ezekiel Dr. Ch. Anuradha, Assistant professor Dept. of English, KBN College. Nissim Ezekiel. Nissim Ezekiesl was an explorative poet. A strain of religious

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Night of the Scorpion Nissim Ezekiel Dr. Ch. Anuradha,

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  1. Night of the Scorpion Nissim Ezekiel Dr. Ch. Anuradha, Assistant professor Dept. of English, KBN College

  2. Nissim Ezekiel

  3. NissimEzekieslwas an explorative poet. A strain of religious philosophy flows through his verse. He is regarded as the pathfinder of the post colonial Indian environment. He is a poet of the mind rather than the heart. In his poetry he conveys his thoughts in a direct and conversational tone. He writes “Night of the Scorpion” with a touch of gentle irony. He touches the poetic portrayal of the rustic situation evoking the Indian ethos.

  4. NissimEzekiesl artistic skill is strikingly is evident in the present poem “Night of the Scropion” The poem portrays a mother’s heart in a touching way. The poem narrates the events of a rainy night. Ten hours of steady rain drove a poisonous scorpion into the narrator’s house. It crawled beneath a sack of rice.

  5. Narrator’s mother was strung by the scorpion. The neighbouring peasants came to her house like swarms of flies. They sympathied with her and prayed to God to paralyse the Evil One. They said that every movement of the Scorpion made the poison moved in mother’s blood. They searched for the scorpion in that dark night with candles and lanterns.

  6. They became Philosophical and tried to console her. They said that the sins of her previous birth would be burned away that night and her suffering would decrease the misfortunes of her next birth. They also said that the poison would purify her flesh of desire and the spirit of ambition. They sat around on the floor with the mother in the centre.

  7. The mother twisted through and through groaning on a mat. The narrator’s father was sceptic and rationalist. He poured some paraffin on her bitten toe and put a match to it. The holy man performed his rites to tame the poison with an incantation. After twenty hours, the pain subsided.

  8. Mother only said, “Thank God the scorpion picked on me and spared my children.” These touching words reflect a mother’s love for her children.

  9. NissimEzekiesl uses the poetic device, simile in this poem. “The peasants came like swarms of flies” Here the groups of peasants are compared to swarms of flies The poet emphasises the hold of superstition on the Indian social psyche. The poem ends with the characteristic style of many modern Indian poets writing in English.

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