Tissue - Imtiaz Dharker

Tissue - Imtiaz Dharker

1. 'Who was born to whom' 'Who died where' - Life is on paper, rely on paper (something fragile)

2. Multiculturalism, born in Pakistan, grew up in Scotland

3. 'Paper thinned by age' - Wears away, like skin, built in layers

4. 'Marks' 'Roads' - Metaphor, blemishes on skin, map

5. 'Smoothed' 'Stroked' - Verbs, delicacy, fragility, looked over by many people

6. 'Names and histories' - All recorded on paper

7. 'Fine slips form grocery shops' - Receipts, everything's recorded

8. 'Paper' - Noun, first word, thins, versatile

9. 'Well-used books' - Paper's important, knowledge

10. 'Alter' - Verb, powerful

11. 'How easily they fall away on a sigh' - Temporary, lost, sad how human life is fragile

12. 'Fly our lives like paper kites' - Simile, controls our lives, money, freedom, fragile

13. 'Koran' - Religion, been around for years, lots of pages/layers

14. 'Drift' 'Shift' - Verb, light, blown apart, taken away

15. 'Transparent' - Adjective, can be seen through

16. 'Light shine' - Allows things to be seen

17. Free verse - Conversational, personal thought flow

18. 'Layer over layer' - Everything built in layers, skin and paper layers

19. Extended metaphor

20. 4 line stanzas - Built in layers

21. Paper in different sizes/colors like people

22. Irregular stanzas - Irregular life

23. Unclear poetic voice

24. Inner conflict of poet

25. No straight forward interpretation

26. 'Thinned' - Repetition at end about skin/humans, don't last like paper

27. 'Luminous' - Adjective, repetition of light

28. 'Raised a structure never made to last' - God never made us to last

29. 'Daylight break through capitals' - Light will outlast all, last thing left in world

30. 'Turned into your skin' - Direct address, stern