Tissue

Question 1

Tissue form

Answer 1

Lack of regular rhyme or rhythm and the enjambment across lines and stanzas give the poem a freedom and openness

‘Drift…shift’

Question 2

Tissue structure

Answer 2

There are three main parts to the poem moving through ideas about history, human experience and creation of human life

‘If buildings were paper’
The speaker suggest that if buildings were made out of paper people would notice that they are only temporary

Question 3

Tissue language about light

Answer 3

Can move though and beyond boundaries and it can break through objects
‘The sun shines through their borderlines’
‘Daylight break through capitals and monoliths’ repeated imagery

Light is presented as positive enabling people to see
‘Light shine through…could alter things

Question 4

Tissue language about freedom

Answer 4

‘River, roads, railtracks’

Alliteration creates a flowing effect of freedom

Question 5

Tissue language of control

Answer 5

‘Maps too’
Short blunt sentence which may reflect the fixed nature of maps and borders. They create division rather then freedom

‘And