Tissue Flashcards
‘Paper thinned by age or touching’
More attention, longer you know someone more transparent they become
Extended metaphor
‘Pages smoothed and stroked and turned transparent with attention’
Can put a front on but it’s always clear the person you are when you open up
Gentle page turning
Extended metaphor
‘If buildings were paper I might feel their drift’
9/11 buildings show permanent human power
‘They fall away on a sigh, a shift’
Shift in behaviour from someone they care for alters their mood.
buildings should be able to change to adapt, but when they cant they are a symbol of unwanted permanence
‘Paper that lets light shine through’
Light breaks all human barriers
Good outweighs the bad
Extended metaphors wrinkles
religious books can have great influence but are so delicate
‘light’ symbol of truth and enlightenment
‘The rivers make roads, rail tracks, mountain folds’
Enjambment, river continues over line, no boundaries
‘Credit card Might fly our lives like paper kites’
Money controls us
Kites are fragile with no control
Shows debt
How we create more issuea
What’s the structure of tissue?
No rhyme scheme to show unpredictability of life,
Blank verse we start as a blank piece of paper and end up full
how is tissues and London similar and different?
similarities- human power is oppression ‘borderlines’ act as a limitation in tissues and ‘mind forgd manacles’ trap the people of London
Differences- In London they accept the cyclical nature but in tissues they offer a solution to the problem.
