Explanation of poem night of scorpion in hindi
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We will take this in sections. I have left out line numbers and broken it up into section. I think you can match up specific lines numbers in the version you have from school with each bulleted section.
The opening of the poem is featured. The speaker's mother bit by a scorpion who took refuge behind the sack of rice.
We get the impression that the poem is set in a village, and like many villages, when one crisis hits a family, the whole throng of villagers come out. Some come out as a sign of help, others come out to mock. The poet makes the villagers here come out of a sincere desire to help.
The villagers give their curses to the scorpion, who has little choice but to take it. It is interesting because while the opening line may speak to the scorpion, the lines that follow could apply to the mother, who has been bit. This raises an interesting take on how the villagers view her. It is interesting to read this section as a section spoken to the scorpion or to the mother. Ask yourself how the meaning of the lines change if we apply it to either character (scorpion or mother).
This section contrasts both the villagers with their ways of addressing the scorpion sting with old world remedies and the father, who is willing to do anything to save his wife. He sounds like a believer in the Western approach to medicine, but also understands that he will buy into and accept whatever is needed to save the woman he loves.
A priest comes to either help the mother overcome the sting, or administer last rites to her as she is dying. The idea here is that we are not sure if the mother lives or dies. If you read it in both ways, the meaning of the poem differs a bit. For example, "the flame feeding" on his mother: Is it because she is living and the priest is doing something to make her live, or because she is dying and the flame is the scorpion's poison. The mother's last words about how she was happy that the creature bit her and not her children: Is this because she lived to tell the story of how she was happy to have spared her children this agonizing pain of the scorpion's bite or was it because she died giving her life for her children? Again, it is not very clear how the mother fares and reading it in both ways (she lives or she dies) changes the meaning of the poem and enhances its complexity.