Tissue

Question 1

What is tissue about?

Answer 1

Tissue is an extended metaphor that shows life is more complex than the things we create and that people care more about money and possessions than humanity

Question 2

4 key quotes?

Answer 2

‘Roads,rail tracks’
‘ Fly our lives like paper kites’
‘ turned into your skin’
‘Maps too’

Question 3

Analysis of ‘maps too’

Answer 3

Short, simple, declarative sentence creates a blunt tone to the poem.

Question 4

Analysis of ‘roads,rail tracks’

Answer 4

Alliteration of harsh consonant highlights Dharker’s disdain towards these man made structures

Question 5

Analysis of ‘fly our lives like paper kites’

Answer 5

Metaphor criticising the significance humanity places on money

Question 6

Analysis of ‘turned into your skin’

Answer 6

Final line is separate to make it clear to the reader that Dharker’s intention was to consider the meaning of the poem in relation to their own life

Question 7

What is the form of this poem?

Answer 7

Allegory which has a hidden meaning of the transience of life. It ends with ‘your skin’ to cement in the readers mind to consider your own actions

Question 8

Structure?

Answer 8

• quatrains shows how restrictive human power can be
• final line is separate to isolate its meaning

Question 9

How does Dharker intertwine religion into the poem?

Answer 9

The symbol of light recurs throughout and is used as a symbol of truth to show how she believes the world should be viewed. God is described in terms of light in both the Bible and ‘Koran’ which Dharker references.