Tissue Flashcards
What’s the purpose of tissue
Criticise help people care more about possessions and money than humanity
Describe Dharker’s childhood
Born in Pakistan but grew up in Glasgow
What did Dharker’s husband suffer with
Cancer for 11 years before dying of it
What collection is ‘tissue’ a part of
‘The terrorist at my table’ which focuses on politics terrorism extremism religion and fundamentalism
What structure is tissue written in 
Quatrains which provide a consistent structure to show how restrictive human power and control can be
What’s the effect of the last stanza
It breaks the structure as it is only one line
This emphasises its meaning to show breaking free from the controlling structure and implies that there is a need to break free from the control of human power
What is the extended metaphor 
Tissue paper
What symbol is a reoccurring theme throughout the poem
Light
Analyse ‘paper that let light shine through’
Light symbolises the truth of how the world should be viewed
Light has religious ties as God is described in terms of light in Christianity and Islam
Light is essential to life which is a breakthrough tissue which represents the materialistic things
Analyse ‘what was paid by credit card might fly our lives like paper kites’
Credit card represents how her husband was on borrowed time
Paper kites reflects how directionless humanity has become and reflects how much time her husband had left
