NIGHT OF THE SCORPION: INDIANNESS
One of the finest poems in recent Indian English literature "Night of the Scorpion" by Nissim Ezekiel clearly shows that Ezekiel is a very Indian poet, rooted in Indian soil and acutely aware of the common human situations of day to day Indian life. The speaker or the poet, who might be, as a detached observer looks the situation over and describes the incidents very vividly which show the very Indianness or Indian sensibility. Whatever the incident may be, actual or imaginary, it is a perfectly realistic and convincing incident. Like the description of the very realistic Indian situation during rainy season, the unity of Indian civilization or the Indian community is also expressed in the poem. When the poet's mother was suffering from the pain, the neighbours were anxious about her, as the mother of the poet, in Indian home, is the "GHAR LAXMI", the beloved of all. However, they all rushed in the speaker's house as "swarms of flies". They chaunt...
