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Child Labour By Ispahan Carpet Poem Analysis

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Child labour is prevalent in many countries, in fact in the poem called Ispahan Carpet the author explores child labour in the carpet industry. The reader recognizes that the text is a poem due to the structure with five stanzas and rhymes. Throughout the poem, the author uses, sensory imagery to describe the horrible conditions of the carpet shop and to create a very intense atmosphere and literary feature are used to describe child labour. The purpose of the poem is to inform the reader about child labour and how dreadful it is and to communicate a feeling of compassion to the reader. To indicate how dreadful child labour is the author writes, “Eight-year-old girls sit sparrow on a plank” and “Bent like old women”, these two lines shows …show more content…

The author emphasises the poems’ title Isphan Carpet by highlighting the title the reader already knows the topic of the poem. The poem starts with a negative image of “gallows”, which is an instrument to decapitate people. The author uses the word the show the setting of the work place which is horrendous. The poet uses certain types of words to create the setting of the poem, this stylistic feature is called diction. The worker slave away from the “gallows”, in a “bare” room, “blackened” piece of poetry in a “cavernous …show more content…

In the first line, the reader can observe a synecdoche referring to the child’s “eyes”, the eyes are representing the whole and the girls are looking at the “whole horizon is the carpet”, the eyes of the girls only see the carpet. At the end of the stanza the author ask a rhetorical question to the reader “Who can unravel the word’s weaving?”. The final stanza show the speakers a feeling of compassion for the girl, “My swollen had is gentle on the greenstick shoulder”, the reader also feels compassion for the girls. The girl with “her large eyes look back at me”, she acts in solidarity of the speakers and with “a speaking darkness” is everything that she is been through her life. Sadly child labour exists and it is a mayor problem in many countries. In this poem the author wants to inform of the horrific life that children lives when they have to work in carpets industry. The uses of imagery evoke a very dark atmosphere and feelings of the carpet shop were the Persian family works, and the rhetorical language shows the slowly dehumanization of the child. As can be seen the poet uses the speakers to show the dark side of the carpet industry where many children are abuse and forced to cream wonderful carpets for the

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