How does the poet create an image of a place in ‘Night of the scorpion’? compare this with the way an image of a place is created in one other poem.
‘Night of the scorpion’ and ‘Blessing’ both display images of the place. Each culture is similar in some ways. ‘Scorpion’ is set a rural place and ‘Blessing’ is presented in an urban place.
In ‘Night of the scorpion’ Nissim ezekial uses imagery to show what the people were like. ‘like swarms of flies’ he also describes the scorpion as the ‘evil one’. These are very powerful words as the scorpion is likened to the devil. By doing this the writer has made the reader feel hatred for the scorpion. The writer has made a place feel negative as the reader will see bad things happening. The writer also brings religion into the poem. For example it says ‘Thank god’ this shows us that it is set in a place which religion place a big role in people’s lives. We know that he poem is set in a small hut as it says ‘The mud baked walls’. This tells us that it is set in a very poor area.