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Q38) Read the poem and write the appreciation in paragraph format with the help of following points

THE NIGHT OF THE SCORPION

I remember the night my mother
was stung by a scorpion. Ten hours
of steady rain had driven him
to crawl beneath a sack of rice.
Parting with his poison - flash
of diabolic tail in the dark room -
he risked the rain again.
The peasants came like swarms of flies
and buzzed the name of God a hundred times
to paralyse the Evil One.
With candles and with lanterns
throwing giant scorpion shadows
on the mud-baked walls
they searched for him: he was not found.
They clicked their tongues.
With every movement that the scorpion made his poison
moved in Mother's blood, they said.
May he sit still, they said
May the sins of your previous birth
be burned away tonight, they said.
May your suffering decrease
the misfortunes of your next birth, they said.
May the sum of all evil
balanced in this unreal world
against the sum of good
become diminished by your pain.
May the poison purify your flesh
of desire, and your spirit of ambition,
they said, and they sat around
on the floor with my mother in the centre,
the peace of understanding on each face

- Nissim Ezekiel

Points :-

Title of the poem
The poet
Rhyme scheme
Figure of speech
Central idea/theme​

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• The poem's title is The night of scorpion which means that there is night of the animals that are scorpions.This poem is written by Nissim Ezekiel.He was a great poet who wrote poem related to nature and animals.
• In this poem the rhyming scheme used is abcab.This poem have different figures of speech which are metaphor , anaphora and personification.
• The central idea of the poem is that when there is any problem on any child , his mother will protect it from any kind of problem .This shows in the line when thw boy as Bitten by scorpion his mother will be crying and asking from help.This shows the kind love of mother towards thir children.

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