Question

appreciation of poem the night of scorpion and metaphor
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appreciation of poem the night of scorpion

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.The theme of the poem "The Night of the Scorpion" is the effort of the father and the peasants to save the mother from the effect of the poison of scorpion.

It starts in a house at night where it is raining and a scorpion, in order to take some shelter, comes to the house. This poem is about how the scorpion stung the poet's mother and the mother's love for her children. to crawl beneath a sack of rice.

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Metaphors in the poem

☞ In Ezekiel's poem, the scorpion serves as a metaphor for an overbearing fear. The scorpion in the poem does what scorpions do. He stings the mother because she got too close to him. However, the hunt and the fear that comes from the scorpion represents a powerful force that could be related to fears we feel in life.