Term 1 Week 3 Revision Homework Flashcards
What does tissue question?
How well we know the people around us. How well we know ourselves and the fragility of humanity.
Semantic Field of light quotations
‘Paper that lets light shine through’ ‘The sun shines through their borderlines’ ‘Let the daylight break through’
Tissues- Key Quotation- Pages
‘Pages smoothed and stroked and turned’
Tissues- Key Quotation- Kites
‘Fine slips…might fly our lives like paper kites’
Give 3 tones of tissues
Gentle, Flowing, Ethereal
Context of ‘The Emigree’
The home country of the speaker is not revealed-this ambiguity gives the poem a timeless revelance
‘The Emigree’- Branded, impression quotation
‘I am branded by an impression of sunlight’
‘The Emigree’- City hides Quotation
‘My city hides behind me’
‘The Emigree’- Tricolon/plosive quotation
‘Tyrant,Tanks,frontiers’
3 Key tones of ‘The Emigree’
Mournful, Defiant, Nostalgic