Tissue

• what does Dharker's imagery of 'maps' suggest?


  we are restricted by maps and borders
• why does Darker use the imagery of 'maps'?


  to suggest that borders create division
• what does Dharker's imagery of 'credit cards' being like 'kites' suggest?


  that we are tied to money
• what does Dharker's imagery of 'capitals and monoliths' suggest?


  Power and authority.
• what does Dharker's imagery of 'sunlight' breaking through suggest?


  Hope that kindness and freedom can win
• what does Dharker encourage?


  kindness, hope, freedom
• what does Dharker challenge?


  power, wealth and restrictions on freedom
• what else does Dharker criticise ?


  the increase in materialistic views
• what structural choice does Dharker make?


  most stanzas mark as a change in tissue paper reference
• why does Dharker suggest that 'credit cards might fly our lives like paper kites'?


  Consumerism and materialism.
• what does Dharker intend to suggest when she says 'let the daylight break through capitals and monoliths'?


  to demonstrate the power of daylight- something people cant control
• what word may you describe the poem 'Tissue' by Dharker as?

  allegorical
• how would you describe the length of each stanza in 'Tissue'?

  quatrains
• what is the last line of 'tissue'?

  turned into your skin
• what is the last line of 'tissue'?

  turned into your skin
• why is the last line singled out instead of remaining in the pattern of quatrains?


  to make clear to the reader that they are meant to consider the meaning of the poem in relation to their life.