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Night of the Scorpion and Vultures Poem Comparison
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... Night of the Scorpion and Vultures Poem Comparison The two poems 'Night of the Scorpion' and 'Vultures' are both similar in several ways but the most obvious similarity is that both poems involve animals. Both poems also involve evil and love, 'Night of the Scorpion' talking about the evil of a scorpion's sting and a mother's love and 'Vultures' talking about how evil creatures are able to love. In 'Night of the Scorpion', the speaker's mother is stung by a scorpion and the local people try all sorts of bizarre and superstitious remedies. In this poem you feel some sympathy for the scorpion; it has been driven from its home by the rain and forced to take cover beneath a sack of rice. The scorpion is not being aggressive, it is not wandering through the house trying to find someone to sting, it is acting defensively because its hiding place has been
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