1) The poem discussed is "Night of the Scorpion" by Nissim Ezekiel. 2) The narrator remembers the night his mother was stung by a scorpion after 10 hours of steady rain drove the scorpion to hide beneath a sack of rice in their home. 3) When the mother entered the dark room, the scorpion stung her with its poisonous tail before fleeing back into the rain.

1. POWERPOINT PRESENTATION ON THE POEM
‘NIGHT OF THE SCORPION’
Nikhitha Bhadran J.R
English
Reg No: 165 14376015
New B.Ed college Nellimood

3. Nissim Ezekiel (1924 – 2004) poet,
playwright, editor, and art critic, is aprominent
Figure in post – indipendent India’s literary history.
He is considered as one of the leading poets in
Indian writing in English. He won the sahitya
Akademi Award in 1983 for his collection of poems
Latter- Day Pslams.

4. SCORPION

5. I remember the night my mother
was stung by a scorpion Ten hours
of steady rain had driven him
to crawl beneath a sack of rice
Parting with his poison – flash
of diabolic tail in the dark room
he risked the ran again.

8. The narrator remembers
the night when his mother was stung by a
scorpion. It was a rainy night. It had rained
continuously for ten hours. This had driven the
scorpion to crawl beneath a sack of rice. When
his mother entered that dark room the
scorpion stung her and went again into the
rain.

9. 1.What is the title of the poem?
2.Who is the author of the poem?
3.The mother was stung by a _____?
4.Where the scorpion hide?
5.Nissim Ezekiel was born in _____?