Poetry - Part 4 Flashcards
1
Q
Name one or two quotes for “Tissue”.
A
“paid by credit card might fly our lives like paper kites” - “Smoothed and stroked” - “turned into your skin”
2
Q
What is “Tissue” about?
A
Explores the power that paper has on humanity, and how it runs our lives, almost as if it was us.
3
Q
Name one or two quotes for “The Emigree”.
A
“my memory of it is sunlight clear” - “it may be at war, it may be sick with tyrants” - “my city comes to me on its own white plane”
4
Q
What is “The Emigree” about?
A
A displaced person reflects on their city of birth. The city is personified - how it is now riddled with war and tyrants.
