Tissue

• Context


  > Impressionistic poetry
• Big ideas


  > Power of fragility of man's power

  > True power of nature
• Tissue 


  Human tissue

  > Metaphor that human power is fragile like tissue

  Ambiguous
• Stanza 1 


  Metaphor of light

  > "Light" metaphor for God - God has power

  > Nature- "light" "Wind" "Sunshine" "Daylight"
• Enjambment 


  lacks control

  > freedom of lines

  > freedom of power humans have but undermined through lack of control
• Three verse 


  > does not rhyme with no regular rhythm

  >lack of peer man has
• repetition


  "transparent"

  > double meaning

  > transparent- honest clear

  > those in power need to be honest and clear to succeed
• connotations of light 


  "heaven" "hope" "Spiritually"

  > happiness will always find a way through in life

  > have to allow yourself to be fragile for the light to seep through
• "turned into your skin" 


  > Human power is fragile like tissue paper