Poetry Commentary "Carpets"
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Comparative Study A comparative study of the two poems "Carpet-Weavers, Morocco" and "Ispahan Carpet", brings us into an Eastern culture of young girls working skilfully, their small hands creating woven carpets of great beauty. Both poets create different environments by injecting emotionally charged descriptions of similar scenes. I believe that the success of these poems results from their splendid use of themes, emotive vocabulary and contrasting as well as similar issues raised. The poem, "Carpet-Weavers, Morocco" is, as I see it, the lighter of the two poems, has three lines in each of its four stanzas. The first line contains the main theme seen in both of the poems; it talks of "another world", which as is followed up later in the poem, refers to the constant differing between the East and the West. The poem continues and in the first stanza there is reference to the second theme, that of the...


