Tissue analysis

Question 1

“Maps too. The sunlight shines through their borderlines”

Answer 1

• shows man’s attempts in trying to control nature and physical landscape is overshadowed by daylight, highlights that man-made attempts to control nature is futile
• Light imagery: emphasises the power of nature, even over something important as a map as it is still thin and fragile, which is ultimately a result from human desire for authority and denomination

Question 2

“Pages smoothed and stroked turned transparent with attention”

Answer 2

• Syndetic listing creates an endless sense such that humans are too obsessed with their systematic information and systems, when it is futile
• Gentle verbs and tactile imagery reflect how we deem our systematic society as essential and how we try hard to maintain it, as the paper turns ‘transparent’ over time
• Enjambment slows down the pace and generates a sense such that Dhaker is criticising us for our unnatural obsession with the uses of paper, and how we let it dominate our lives

Question 3

“What was paid by credit card fly our lives like paper kites”

Answer 3

• Simile highlights our reliance on money and wealth, however it is insignificant and fragile as it only has value because we give it value
• By comparing humans to paper kites, it suggests that we are being anchored down by our own debts
• The noun ‘kites’ has connotations of childhood innocence, suggesting that as we get older, we gain an obsession with money and allow it to govern our lives