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Poetry Comparison Vultures by Chinua Achebe and Night of the Scorpion by Nissim Ezekiel The poems Night of the Scorpion and Vultures are both about noxious creatures; vultures are scavengers, feasting on the morsels of dead animal carcasses that they find, and scorpions are the poisonous insects of our worst nightmares. In Vultures, the vultures are compared and related with the Nazi Officer. But in Night of the Scorpion, the scorpion is not related to any person, although the scorpion is made out as the symbol of death. 'In the greyness and drizzle of one despondent dawn...the hollowed remnant in easy range of cold telescopic eyes.' The poet makes the vultures' entire personality a sort of paradox: Although yesterday they 'picked the eyes off a swollen corpse in a water-logged trench,' today they 'nestle close together.' 'His smooth bashed-in head,' the paradox of their characters is echoed in the imagery of the...

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