Tissue Flashcards
1
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Quotes p.1.
A
“Paper”
“Paper thinned by age or touching”
“Koran”
“a hand has written in the names and histories who was born to whom”
“the height and weight”
“who died where and how”
2
Q
Quotes p.2.
A
“pages smoothed and strokes and turned”
“transparent with attention”
“If buildings were paper”
“easily they fall away on a sigh”
“Maps too.”
“Fine slips from grocery shops”
“what was paid by credit card might fly our lives like paper kites”
3
Q
Quotes p.3.
A
“architect” could “never wish to build again with bricks”
“trace a grand design”
“with living tissue”
“raise a structure never meant to last”
4
Q
STRUCTURE
A
- Three main parts; move through ideas about history, human exp and the creation of human life
- Final, single line stands out; focuses reader on their own identity and how it’s created
5
Q
FORM
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- Poetic voice is elusive; focus on humanity rather than specific person or speaker
- Lack of regular rhythm or rhyme and enjambment across lines and stanzas; gives poem a freedom and openness reflecting narrators desire for freedom and clarity
- Short stanzas mean poem is built up in layers, just as it suggests human life is
