TISSUES

Question 1

What is tissue an extended metaphor for?

Answer 1

Life, shows how although fragile humans have large amount of power to change things.

Question 2

What are the first 3 stanzas about in Tissue?

Answer 2

Importance of paper

Question 3

What are the 4th to 6th stanzas about in Tissue?

Answer 3

Paradox, paper is fragile yet controls our lives

Question 4

What are the 7th to 9th stanzas about in Tissue?

Answer 4

Creating things such as human life. Life is not only temporary but also complex and precious

Question 5

What is the rhythm and rhyme scheme and its effect?

Answer 5

Lack of rhythm and rhyme which shows how the narrators desire for freedom and clarity. (Also highlighted in the use of enjambment

Question 6

What collection does tissue come from?

Answer 6

‘Terrorist at my table’ explores fundamentalism (abuse of power)

Question 7

What does the poem Tissue present?

Answer 7

Humans do not have the right attitude to life, god has your life planned out already.

Question 8

What is the opening line in tissue?

Answer 8

“paper that lets the light shine through”

Question 9

what could the quote “paper that lets the light shine through” suggest?

Answer 9

symbolism of god “light” shining through goodness, hints to what needs to change.

Question 10

What quote uses a homophone to emphasise the religion imagery throughout the poem

Answer 10

“what could alter things”
homephone- chuch altar

Question 11

What could the quote “what could alter things” suggest

Answer 11

The perspective of the reader, religion

Question 12

what quote is a metaphor for skin in the first stanza in tissue?

Answer 12

“Paper thinned by age or touching”

Question 13

What could to quote “paper thinned by age or touching” suggest

Answer 13

paper can deteriorate just like human life. Paper can be worn out. Present particle “touching” shows how easy paper can be damaged

Question 14

What is the quote which uses sibilance and a rule of three within tissue?

Answer 14

pages smoothed and stroked and turned

Question 15

What is the effect of the quote “Pages smoothed and stroked and turned”

Answer 15

Soft and gentle verbs, shows respect and treated with affection. Sibilance, comforting and soothing - aging process? Polysyndetic listing.

Question 16

What does the quote “transparent with attention” suggest

Answer 16

if paper continues to become thin, we can learn more, can see more deeply, the more we examine our lives and grow mature.

Question 17

What quote in tissue uses a caesura?

Answer 17

‘Maps too. The sun shines through their borderlines”

Question 18

What does the quote “Maps too. The sun shines through their borderlines” suggest.

Answer 18

“Maps too.” Blunt, mankind’s creations, reflects the fixed nature of maps. Maps highlight the divisions of land between countries yet nature overpowers mankind, sun is powerful and permanent, borders are temporary marks
Could also reference god’s disappointment within modern society, he sees straight “through their borderlines” in society, knowing that in reality, all beings and places in the world are created with equality