Tissue

Question 1

What is Tissue about?

Answer 1

This is a critique of human power highlighting the fragility of mans power and the power of nature. Paper is a metaphor for human power.

Question 2

What is the Quote shows how nature overpowers human man-made power’

Answer 2

‘maps too. The sun shines, through their borderlines… roads….railtracks’

Question 3

What does the quote about how we have freedom but are controlled?

Answer 3

‘Fly our lives like paper kites’

Question 4

What is the quote that shows the poet trying to see power as conflict as well?

Answer 4

‘Koran, buildings, maps and shopping receipts’

Question 5

What does the quote ‘maps too. The sun shines, through their borderlines… roads…rail-tracks’?

Answer 5

Maps segregate and divide the natural world, through mans power, man chooses how to divide the natural world to ‘Borderlines’ this shows how man is trying to exert power onto nature. Nature overpowers man through ‘the sunshine’ a symbol of nature but it overpowers the paper. The listing device reflects, mans desire to order and control everything even the natural environment.

Question 6

What does the quote ‘Fly our lives like paper kites’ suggest?

Answer 6

Receipts are man made suggesting that man made power is not permanent but the power of nature has all the power.