Tissue Flashcards
Who wrote the poem?
Imtiaz Darker
What is the first line?
Paper that lets the light shine through
What id the last line?
‘Turned into your skin’- this is left separate to make it clear to the listener that they are meant to consider the meaning of the poem in relation to their life.
What is the structure?
The whole poem is written in quatrains which provides a consistent structure to show how restrictive human power and control can be.
The final line is only a single line to emphasise and isolate its meaning. This shows it 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 is used to liken surrounding objects to human life. “Maps too” shows how a person can be like a map with many differet countries and cultures contained within them and no borders.
What is the form?
It takes the form of an allegory which had the hidden meaning of revealing the transience of life.vthis could cause the reader to let go of a materialistic life and instead focus on the people around them and God. It ends with the direct address “your skin” to cement this meesage in the readers’ minds that they should consider their pwn actions.
What is the Free verse and enjambment in the poem?
The regularity of a fixed stanza length is undermined by the use of free verse and enjambment. These loose structural forms show that freedom can be found even within a restrictive institution.
Asyndetic listing
‘The height and weight, who died where and how, on which sepia date, pages smoothed’- this is used to emphasise the significancs of the Koran on humanity
