Ispahan Carpet by Elizabeth Burge Rough

The poem, Ispahan Carpet, by Elizabeth Burge Rough, was written in the premier person order of view, with the fictitious character who is probably a phaeton or visitor, feeling humane to the carpet nosers and app alled at the use of child labour. It is near the inescapable nature of culture, no matter how cruel the custom may be. The author uses imagery , figurative language and crease to express this idea. The poem begins by drawing out the consideration through grim optic imagery using lyric such as gallows, rough, unfathomed and sallow. The tidings gallows makes the exertionstation seem serious and deadly as the word is often associated with the gallows which are utilise to hang criminals or cows to their death. However instead of it macrocosm quick, instantaneous and merciful, the death is haggard out slowly through the weaving process. This immediately creates an sinister setting of the workplace on which the carpets are woven. The alliteration of the term inology silent and sallow that discern the Persian family who work and weave the carpets emphasise the toll of the raspy work as the word silent suggests that they are uneffective to protest and that they take in no say whatsoever. Sallow helps readers discover the toll the work and conditions cave in taken on them to the point that their skin turns sickly yellow.\nThe visual imagery and juxtaposition of the room bare but for smuggled pots and jars against the sensuous jewelled arabesques which delimit the beautifully woven carpets suggests that the family who work so arduously in such vile conditions do not get untold in return for doing so, as the room they work in is bare. The pots and jars that are blackened all suggest that the conditions are foul-smelling and that what little belongings that they had have been contaminated and made filthy. The panoptic metaphor of the young girls as birds through the phrases sit sparrowed on a plank and their uncorroborated bird-b ones emphasize their vulnerabili...