Tissue

Question 1

Key quotes (6)

Answer 1

• “Paper that lets the light shine through”
• “If buildings were paper, I might feel their drift”
• “Fly our lives like paper kites”
• “An architect could use all this”
• “Find a way to trace a grand design with living tissue”
• “Turned into your skin”

Question 2

Structure (2)

Answer 2

• On-going monologue with some internal rhyme through the poem
• Enjambment creates a very human and calm tone

Question 3

Tone

Answer 3

Tone of hopefulness - suggests that instead of being at conflict with the world around us we create a sense of ownership and shared identity

Question 4

Analyse - “Paper that lets the light shine through” (2)

Answer 4

• Enjambment - creates an on-going monologue tone

* Symbolic suggests hope, positive tone

Question 5

Analyse - “If buildings were paper, I might feel their drift”

Answer 5

Metaphor - a paper structure would drift but also ‘drift’ as in purpose, what they stand for. What they are for

Question 6

Analyse - “fly over like paper kites” (2)

Answer 6

• Flying kites connotes a childlike, innocence and esse

* suggests perhaps that if we changed our approach to material ownership we would regain that childhood peace of mind

Question 7

Analyse “An architect can use all of this”

Answer 7

Symbolic for not just someone who designs buildings but also anyone who makes anything - metaphor for all of us

Question 8

Analyse - “Find a way to trace a grand design with living tissue” (2)

Answer 8

• Biblical reference suggestive of the bigger picture and a sense of spiritual fulfilment - suggests we could be building things that improve our life and not holding us back
• “tissue” metaphor for people/society

Question 9

Analyse “turned into your skin”

Answer 9

Direct address - suggesting that instead of being at conflict with the world around us we create a sense of ownership and shared identity