"Night of the Scorpion" by Nissim Ezekiel, published in "The Exact Name"(1965) is "one of the finest poems in recent Indian English literature." The poem has been universally admired for its beautiful depiction of a common Indian situation, Indian culture and for its vivid and forceful imagery. It clearly shows that Ezekiel is a very Indian poet, rooted in Indian soil and acutely aware...

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...

In the poem "Night of the Scorpion" by Nissim Ezekiel which is taken from the book of poems, "The Exact Name"(1965), the poet gives some examples of superstitious beliefs of the common and ignorant people of a villege of Mumbai, in which the poet was born. These superstions are described here nicely -              Firstly they believed that with the...