London and tissue Flashcards
Paragraph 1
Both poems work to criticise material, wealth and inequality
, in the poem tissue with the speaker and poet is criticising, how people can control each other
This is evident in the “find slips from grocery shops might fly all lives like paper kites “
Could be a reference to receipts, suggesting the power of money or the power of capitalism. The simile is powerful because Doherty might be suggesting that too easily We allow need to control all lives.
By stating that they can fly our lives, like paper, kites it indicates that we to easily Moneycontrol or manipulateus .
Suggest that we have become fragile in the face of money because we place too much importance on wealth.
Adj fine has dual meaning.
Connotations of punishment - or delicate critisizing its power even though it is fragile.
Encourage reader to question relation ship with money
Paragraph to London criticises, material wealth, an inequality
Likewise, the poem, London criticises, material wealth, an inequality
“ every blackening church apples”
Adjective blackening is at the surface level and acknowledgement of the soft and smooth that is polluters of every part of London in the 1700s . The figurative interpretation could be that negative connotations of immorality and evil criticism of organised, religion and failure to provide for the disadvantages member of society.
connote dismay and honour and reflects the lack of action in the church, which could offer help and support to the poor. But instead, it is focus on the wealth of lack of morality, appals people who believe that the true meaning of the Bible, it juxtaposes, purity and love.
Paragraph 3 Darker offers solutions to tackle the problem of power
Darker offers solutions to tackle the problem of power
This is also emphasised in. “ let’s see you later breakthrough, capital and monolith”
Momolyths refer to single stone structures that could symbolise how human power company called Richard and inflexible much like the statue of Ozymandias.
Imperative LET - she believes in allowing nature to destroy power like this
Daylight has connotations of warmth, nature and comfort - perhaps arguing we need to allow more freedom on the way to bring joy and happiness to people
Paragraph 4 Oppression and suffering causes blake to two resign
Oppression and suffering causes blake to two resign, the cyclical nature of corruption, using a cyclical structure of the poem.
“ infants, cry of fear… mind, forged, manacles, I hear”
Internal oppression and weakness. Also a combination of suffering and hurt experienced in these lines.
This is significant because children are supposedly born innocence and shouldn’t have to suffer this phrase insight sympathy for the reader, and it shows pessimistically. Even life is destined for misery which emphasises the never ending nature of suffering.
“ how do you full harlots case and the lights with plagues marrige hearse.” Prostitutes wearing a children is she inflicting long lasting harm on London itself
Love is dead oxymoron used to mirror the marriage with death. Please could best present an STI spread by the prostitute, or could represent the never-ending disease of poverty, and how it will continue to spread and affect many more..
Paragraph 5 Shows human power as a source of oppression and suffering.
Shows human power as a source of oppression and suffering.
“ I wander through each charted street, and Mark, every face I meet marks of weakness, marks of woe”
Repetition of marks demonstrated. This is a permanent impact. Cannot remove impacts of suffering they have experienced like branding cattle.
Bing charted, so are officially owned and controlled by the wealthy
Breaks from iambic tetra meter used for most of the remainder of the poem which could reflect how if people rise up against institutions they come through themselves from social restraint
Paragraph 6 Poem largely focuses on the weakness of human power and the lack of control they have
Poem largely focuses on the weakness of human power and the lack of control they have. Dark at uses the extended metaphor of tissue or paper to perhaps represent different types of human power. Whilst some paper is fragile, and delicate, are the types of paper can be Richard and symbolise the ideas of control.
This is evident in the Motif of daylight and sunlight which are referred to throughout tissue
In stanza, five darker refers to “maps to sunlight breakthrough, their boarderlines,”
Maps could be seen as an attempt for human control to dominate the natural environment. Borderlands are often associated with control restriction and limited freedom.
However, the fact nature breaks through this represents un stoppable power of nature. Only temporary - nature is eternal
