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What was the attitude of the Speaker's father in the poem "Night of the Scorpion"?

In Nissim Ezekiel's 'Night of the Scorpion', the speaker's father is explicitly described as a 'sceptic, rationalist' ('My father, sceptic, rationalist, / trying every curse…

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What was the attitude of the Speaker's father in the poem "Night of the Scorpion"?

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In Nissim Ezekiel's 'Night of the Scorpion', the speaker's father is explicitly described as a 'sceptic, rationalist' ('My father, sceptic, rationalist, / trying every curse and blessing').

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