Night of the Scorpion-Nissim Ezekiel MATCHES: Two Scavengers in a Truck‚ Nothing’s Changed-Two Cultures Vultures‚ Limbo-Contrasting Views Nissim Ezekiel (White male poet): 1. Nissim Ezekiel was born in Bombay‚ now Mumbai‚ India in 1924. 2. His parents were Israeli and he was brought up with the Jewish faith‚ though he had friends of many different religions. 3. As a child he was very serious about religion and often spoke to his friends on a deep scale in relation to religious matters
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of a mother for her child‚ which in itself is a conspicuous feature of Indianness. Analysis of the poem – Apparently the theme of the poem is an experience of a scorpion bite that was inflicted on the poet’s mother. The poem is a first person narrative of the agony that a son had to undergo watching his mother suffer due to a scorpion sting. But subtly the theme of the poem is a stringent satire on the lack of medical and scientific knowledge that plagues the lives of so many people in India. The
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NIGHT OF SCORPION - THE CRITICAL APPRECIATION --------------------------------------- Night of the scorpion written by Nissim Ezkiel is an interesting poem and the poet brings about a very appealing contrast between good and evil in it; altogether giving the poem an essence of equality. The poet makes it a trouble-free task for the readers to visualize the scenes with the appropriate use of various imageries. He has also done a marvelous work of adding various different senses into the
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Night of the Sorpion’ is a poignant poem that evokes the strong hold of superstition within our social psyche. Ezekiel recalls the night when his mother was stung by a scorpion. With the onset of the monsoons‚ the ten hours of warm and steady rains had compelled the mysterious scorpion to crawl into the house and hid itself beneath a sack of rice in the dark store room. Without any mercy‚ it raised up its lethal‚ venomous and diabolic tail and stung Ezekiel’s mother in one of her toes while she was
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alliteration to describe the moment of the sting: ’Parting with his poison’. He alludes to evil in the phrase ’diabolic tail’‚ comparing the scorpion to the devil. The poem is written in free verse with different line lengths and no rhyme…The theme of the poem is presented through an incident in which the poet’s mother is bitten by a scorpion on rainy night. The villagers on hearing of this unfortunate event‚ come to see her‚ praying to god and giving all kinds of justifications for her suffering
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NIGHT OF THE SCORPION lesson plan Learning objectives: • To be able to comment on the punctuation used by a poet and how this punctuation helps us to understand the poem’s ideas • To be able to identify and rhythm and the pace of a poem and explain the impact of these on the reader’s understanding KEY WORDS THIS LESSON: punctuation rhythm pace repetition STARTER: (10 minutes) Remind the students of what being a successful group discussion member actually means‚ using the first
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NIGHT OF THE SCORPION ‘Night of the Scorpion’‚ in which Ezekiel recalls the behaviour of ’the peasants’‚ his father‚ his mother and a holy man when his mother was poisoned by a scorpion’s sting. Here the aim is to find poetry in ordinary reality as observed‚ known‚ felt‚ experienced rather than as the intellect thinks it should be. While the peasants pray and speak of incarnations‚ his father‚ ’sceptic‚ rationalist’‚ tries ’every curse and blessing‚ powder‚ mixture‚ herb and hybrid’ and a
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nature which science is trying currently to decipher is the main cause of a parallel system filled with miracles and sufferings. Literature joined forces with science to highlight the reality and what is believed as in Nissim Ezekiel’s poem‚ Night of the Scorpion. One of the notable incidents to expose the clash of science and philosophy was the number 13. Unlucky for those who believe in history and means nothing actually in the light of science. And when people are given the freedom‚ everything turns
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Commentary on “Night of the Scorpion” by Nissim Ezequiel The poem “Night of the Scorpion” by Nissim Ezekiel is an account of how the poet remembers his mother being stung by a scorpion when he was young. However‚ he does not write about his own feelings or reactions; we realize he is merely the narrator. Most of the poem is in the third person‚ as Ezekiel reports on what other people do and say and he uses various images and senses to make us visualise the scenes. The poem is written
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Summary of poem “night of the scorpion” The poet ’s mother was stung by a scorpion on that night when it was pouring very heavily‚ thousands of villagers on hearing the news came in ’like swarms of flies ’ trying to do their bit in saving the mother. They came with lanterns‚ candles and crowded round her chanting the name of God ’a thousand times ’‚ they first tried to search for the scorpion for they felt as much as the scorpion moved the poison of the mother would spread but there was no
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