Carpet Weavers Morocco
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Carpet Weavers, Morocco An analysis of Carol Rumens poem 'Carpet Weavers, Morocco' This poem deals with the issue of child labour in Morocco. In Morocco you will find that most carpets have been made by children who should actually be at school. However their parents can't afford to send them there so they are made to work. Many of them start weaving from the age of five. They are sent to work early because there at least their parents will know that they are fed. This is what Carol Rumens saw when she visited Morocco which inspired her to write this poem. In the first stanza Rumens describes what the children who weave the carpets are like. Looms are the machine on which carpets are made but in the poem they have a second meaning which is that another world is coming into view for them. 'Another world' could be talking...


