Comparing ‘The night of the scorpion’ and ‘Digging’ Essay Example

The poem 'The Night Of The Scorpion' deals with many points of family relationship as does the other poem 'Digging'. In 'The Night Of The Scorpion the relationship is between the mother and the chidren. In 'Digging ' the relationship is between the son and father.

• Straight away at the start of the poem 'The Night Of The Scorpion' there is a feeling of tenderness by the mother and willingness of sacrifice by her. (line 47, "thank god the scorpion picked on me and spared my children").
• There is also a community of peasents in the poem which shows that they are in a close relationship. This feeling of relationship is expressed well in line 8 ("the peasents came like a swarm of flies).
• The community also show sighns of belief of god ar
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  a special god.

  There is also superstition beween the peasents as showed in line16 (" with every movement that the scorpion made...moved in mother's blood).

  At the start of the poem 'Digging' the first two opening lines sound as though they are or could be the end of the poen. This gives extra deph to the poem making the reader want to immagine and try to the think what is going to happen next. It also makes the reader want to read on. ( line 1-2, "Between my finger and my thumb The squat pen rests:snug as a gun")

  The poem is narrated by the son although there is no sign of this until the last line of the second paragraph.

  I think the writer was trying to let the reader have a wide immagination. (line 5, My father, digging. I look down) There are

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