anthology: tissue. Flashcards
1
Q
what is the purpose and meaning of the text?
A
- senses of different images to make the reader think.
- non-narrative.
2
Q
what is the context of the text?
A
- writer is an artist, documentary film maker and poet.
- exhibitions of drawings.
- describes world laureate.
- husband died after battling 10 years of cancer.
3
Q
language and structure: explanation and quotes.
A
- layering images like layers of paper, skin or tissue.
- quatrains.
- 3 categories: human history, human experience, freedom and creation.
- free verse, no rhyme or rhythm.
- enjambment at the end of lines.
- motif of light and transparency.
- ‘your skin’- creating you inside out and direct address.
- ‘fly our lives like paper kites,’- simile, displaying lives, fragile?
- ‘and never wish to build again with brick’- building a new type of world.
- sibilance, sounds like paper sliding.
4
Q
key quotes.
A
‘paper that lets the light shine though.’
- ‘turned into your skin.’
- ‘ but let the daylight break through capitals and monoliths.’
- ‘ never wish to build again with brick.’
5
Q
what does it pair well with?
A
emigree.
