SABARIGIRI

COLLEGE OF
EDUCATION
JISHA.T.ALEX
ENGLISH

WELCOME TO THE
POWERPOINT PRESENTATION
OF THE POEM

NIGHT OF THE SCORPION

NISSIM EZEIKEL

ABOUT THE POET

HE IS A POET,PLAYWRIGHT EDITOR AND AN ART
CRITIC
HE IS A PROMINENT FIGURE IN POST
INDEPENDEDNT INDIAS LITERARY HISTORY
HE IS CONSIDERED AS ONE OF THE LEADING
POETS IN INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH
HE WON SAHITYA ACADEMY AWARD IN 1983 FOR
HIS COLLECTION OF POEMS LATTER DAY
PSALMS

SUMMARY
NISSIM EZEIKALS NIGHT OF THE SCORPION IS
A STRONG YET SIMPLE STATEMENT ON THE
POWER OF SELF EFFECTIVE LOVE
FULL TO BRIM WITH INDIANNESS
IT CAPTURES A WELL DETACHED BLACK AND
WHITE SNAPSHOT OF INDIAN VILLAGE LIFE
WITH ALL ITS SUPERSTITIOUS SIMPLICITY

DIFFICULT WORDS
*STING -TO CAUSE TO SMART
*DIABOLIC -MORALLY BAD
*MISFORTUNES AN UNLUCKY CONDITION
GROANING -MAKE A DEEP SOUND

RHYMING WORDS
FLIES - TIMES
LANTERS - SHADOWS
WORLD -GOOD

SIMILIES AND
METAPHOR
SIMILIEThe peasants came like swarms of flies and buzzed
the name of God a hundred times to paralyse the evil one
METAPHOR
I watched the holy man perform his rite/TO
lame the poison with an incantation

THANK YOU