Tissue

• Paper thinned by age


  Delicate
• The back of the Koran

  Criticises religion
• Smoothed and stroked


  Delicate verbs
• Transparent with attention


  See through, honest and clear
• If buildings were paper

  Power of man
• How easily they fall, on a sigh, a shift in the direction of the wind

  Delicate
• Maps too. The sun shines through the borderlines


  Nature overwhelms, trying to control things that can not be controlled
• Our lives like paper kites


  Simile, not going to last / withstand pressure
• But let the daylight break


  Nature triumphs
• Paper smoothed and stroked and thinned to be transparent


  The realisation of insignificance
• Turned into your skin

  Showing the fragility of life and him much time is spent on insignificant things.
• Free verse


  Lacks control, lack of control over life
• Enjambment


  Lack of control, lack of control of life
• Key themes


  • power and value
  • fragility of life
  • power of humans vs power of nature
  • power of paper
  • identity
• Comparison poems


  • my last duches
  • ozymandius
  • chekin out me history
  • the emigree
  • london