Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Tissue - Imtiaz Dharker
- 'Who was born to whom' 'Who died where' - Life is on
paper, rely on paper (something fragile)
- Multiculturalism, born in
Pakistan, grew up in Scotland
- 'Paper thinned by age' - Wears
away, like skin, built in layers
- 'Marks' 'Roads' - Metaphor,
blemishes on skin, map
- 'Smoothed' 'Stroked' - Verbs, delicacy,
fragility, looked over by many people
- 'Names and histories' -
All recorded on paper
- 'Fine slips form grocery shops' -
Receipts, everything's recorded
- 'Paper' - Noun, first
word, thins, versatile
- 'Well-used books' - Paper's
important, knowledge
- 'Alter' - Verb, powerful
- 'How easily they fall away on
a sigh' - Temporary, lost, sad
how human life is fragile
- 'Fly our lives like paper kites'
- Simile, controls our lives,
money, freedom, fragile
- 'Koran' - Religion, been around
for years, lots of pages/layers
- 'Drift' 'Shift' - Verb, light,
blown apart, taken away
- 'Transparent' - Adjective,
can be seen through
- 'Light shine' - Allows
things to be seen
- Free verse - Conversational,
personal thought flow
- 'Layer over layer' -
Everything built in layers,
skin and paper layers
- Extended metaphor
- 4 line stanzas - Built in layers
- Paper in different sizes/colors like people
- Irregular stanzas
- Irregular life
- Unclear poetic voice
- Inner conflict of poet
- No straight forward interpretation
- 'Thinned' - Repetition at end about
skin/humans, don't last like paper
- 'Luminous' - Adjective, repetition of light
- 'Raised a structure never made to last'
- God never made us to last
- 'Daylight break through
capitals' - Light will outlast
all, last thing left in world
- 'Turned into your
skin' - Direct
address, stern