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Comparison of ‘Blessing’ and ‘Night of the scorpion’
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Comparison of 'Blessing' and 'Night of the scorpion' The poem 'Blessing' is about water: in a hot country, where the supply is inadequate, the poet sees water as a gift from a god. When a pipe bursts, the flood which follows is like a miracle, but the "blessing" is ambiguous - it is such accidents which at other times cause the supply to be so little. The poem 'Night of the Scorpion', however, Nissim Ezekiel recalls "the night" his "mother was stung by a scorpion". The poem is not really about the scorpion or its sting, but contrasts the reactions of family, neighbours and his father, with the mother's dignity and courage. The scorpion (sympathetically) is shown as sheltering from ten hours of rain, but so fearful of people that it "risk(s) the rain again" after stinging the poet's mother. The opening lines of the poem 'Blessing' compare human skin to...
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