Comment on the ending of the poem, Night of the Scorpion -

The poem "Night of the Scorpion" by Nissim Ezekiel describes the  pang of the poet's mother, when she was stung by a scorpion. Through the whole poem, it is shown that she was crying because of the effectiveness of the pain. But after twenty hours, she was cured by empiric medicine produced by the poet's father.

                  After her curing, she did say nothing of her anguish and suffering, but simply thanked God not because He relieved her pain, but because He saved her children from the stung of the Scorpion:
      "Thank God the scorpion picked on me/ and spared my children."

             Here the high dedacticism of Indian motherhood is very vehemently expressed and also the devotional mentality of a rustic mother is clearly discernible.