Taufiq Rafat Poems Analysis

The author in “Sacrifice” tries to put the reader in the perspective of the goat to make it feel more intense which takes place in the first and third stanza. In the fourth stanza, the children, blank templates, are looking on over this “tableau”, being programmed as though this is a normal occurrence. The “Night of the Scorpion” had a lot of comparisons such as the peasants are compared to fly’s swarming and the shadows like giant scorpions. The last stanza, in “Sacrifice” is a shock of sorts.

“We are not laying the foundations of a house” and” But another Dachau”. There is so little preparation for this in the poem. Dachau is a concentration camp you would have to do research to find out what went on during the Second World War to understand what Rafat intended the audience to believe.

Within “Night of the Scorpion” you can see panic in the father’s. As a married person I can feel what is going through the fathers thoughts.

The team work that a partnership needs to survive, when one facet of the team has gone the team fall to pieces for a while, until a leader pulls the team together. This is one of the thoughts going through the father’s mind. Also there is the other thought of devotion and love for his wife. This leads him to try any thing in his power to keep the team together even thought he might be a sceptic with some of the ideas to help his wife.

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For something to be as vividly in Ezekiel’s mind as when his mother got stung it must have been quite horrific. His Mother is glad it was not her children. As a parent it always seems that there is a stronger bond between the children and their mother, as she is pleased she was bitten and not the children. It was such a frantic poem but at least it did have a happy ending. In “Sacrifice” why did Taufiq Rafat go to his friend’s house for this ceremony?

This is the question I have been looking at in my endeavour to understand the poet’s mentality. If I was going to a ceremony which involved such a horrific sacrifice I would turn down the invitation. Overall the poem was very disturbing and I felt like putting it down after the first stanza. The last stanza highlight exactly how I feel about the whole poem, “But another Dachau”. The poems where totally opposite to each other, one showing love, panic and relief the other showing brutality, control and disgust. My favourite was the “Night of the Scorpion” at least it had a happy ending.