Tissue Flashcards
Who wrote Tissue?
Imtiaz Dharker
What does the speaker use tissue paper for?
An extended metaphor for life
What does the enjambment in the poem suggest?
A lack of control, suggesting that power lacks control and order, undermining the suggested control that humans have.
As the poem is written in free verse, what does it suggest?
Just as the poem lacks a regular rhythm and rhyme, as man try to enforce control their efforts are futile.
In the quote “paper that lets the light shine through”, who is the light?
As light is often used as a symbol of truth, or in religious texts to represent God.
If the light that shines through is God, what does it suggest God can do? (QUOTE)
“Alter things”
What is the “thin paper” a metaphor for?
Old age
-As we age we gain wisdom and therefore can “alter things”
What are the main feelings and attitudes in Tissue?
Freedom
Control
“A structure never…”
“A structure never meant to last, of paper smoothed and stroked”
What does “A structure never meant to last, of paper smoothed and stroked” suggest?
Human life is only temporary, suggesting we have a lack of control of when we will die
What does the simile “what was paid by credit card might fly our lives like paper kites” suggest?
Our lives are controlled by money which dictates are outcome.
