Carpet-weavers, Morocco - Poetry Prof

Who is the author of the poem 'Carpet Weavers, Morocco'?

• Ben Wilkinson

• Mohammed Bennis

• William Blake

• Carol Rumens

What is the main activity of the children in the poem?

• Watching television

• Weaving carpets

• Attending school

• Playing in a garden

What motif is embroidered into the carpet in the poem?

• Sunset

• Stars and Moon

• Ocean Waves

• Garden of Islam

What does the poem suggest about the children's work?

• It is a waste of time

• It benefits the community

• It is a passive activity

• It is a form of play

What connotation does the word loom have?

What is the effect of the word veins?

• It denotes the blood vessels of the human body

• It suggests that the embroidered art is so real that the patterns seem to have their own life

• It makes us think that the children are weaving their own life blood into the carpet

• It personifies the trees by making it seem like the trees have human veins

What is the effect of the comparison between weaving and television?

• It helps us consider which is more productive, as weaving is active whilst watching television is passive

• It suggests that watching television is bad

• It helps us see that weaving is boring, like television

• It helps us consider the effect of television on the children's eyes

The final stanza makes us feel...

• that the children should not be in school rather than working

• that the children should really be in school rather than working

• that the carpet must be very beautiful

• that child labour is justified in certain contexts

What sound effects does Rumens use in the poem to create the soft tone?

• nasal and sibilant sounds

• plosive and sibilant sounds

• jubilant and juxtaposed sounds

• chronic and oppressive sounds

What is the effect of not end-stopping the last two lines of the poem?

• It represents failure

• It represents freedom

• It makes the end of the poem final

• It shows the reader that the poem is over