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There are two messages that the poet wishes to convey through this poem as there are only two stanzas. The first subject he wants to bring in light are the superstitions of the rural people and how they think that everything that happens to a person is connected to their doings in life or 'karma' in other words. The poet starts the second stanza by telling us how grateful the mother is to God that the scorpion spared her children and stung her instead. This shows us the eternal love of the mother for her kids. The poet tries to convey that a mother will always want what's best for her child and will be prepared to bear any harm.
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∙ 14y agoIt is about a family who live in a mud hut in India. The time of year is during the monsoon season, and a scorpion is trying to shelter itself from the torrential rain behind a sack of rice. The scorpion is found, and in fear and self defense, stings the mother's toe. The family and others try every cure to heal it but to no avail. The father then decides to put a drop of paraffin onto the toe and sets it alight. After 20 hours, the pain has gone and the mother is still alive.
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∙ 11y agoThe title of the story is quite tricky.First of all ,it is not about the scorpion ,as it seems to suggest.Scorpion is not at the centre of the poem .The poem is actually
about the irrational behaviours of the ignorant villagers and about mother's affection and care for her children
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∙ 13y agoHelplessness
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∙ 9y agoThe Night of the Scorpion is a poem by Nissim Ezekiel. The poem describes the narrator's mother being stung by a scorpion. A line by line explanation for the poem is available online.
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∙ 10y agowhat are the superstitious belief
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