Tissue

Question 1

Overall point

Answer 1

Explore idea that reasons of conflict eg bible, money, books are created by meaningless paper
= connotations that paper makes up society
= broken humanity is at the heart of conflict

Question 2

Language point 1

Answer 2

Compares things people determine their lives with to tissue
= show we give them power but they are flimsy basis for society

Question 3

Key quotes

Answer 3

Pages smoothed and stroked and turned with attention
Might fly our lives like paper kites
The sun shines through their borderline
Trace a grand design with living tissue

Question 4

Analyse “pages smoothed and stroked and turned with attention”

Answer 4

Verb shows gentle loving care over documents or paper
= value and respect given to the
= humans give them power

Question 5

Analyse “might fly our lives like paper kites”

Answer 5

Metaphor of life being ruled by money
“Kite”
= illusion of being free but actually anchored to the ground
= money is anchor that traps us in place
= we think it makes us free but actually holding us prisoners

Question 6

Analyse “the sun shines through their borderline”

Answer 6

“Shine through”
=borderlines on maps are real or solid
“Sun”
= hope or joy
= suggest if we removed borders we would have ideal society
“Sun”
= source of enlightenment to reader in a new way of living where God is able to permeate through life and materialism
= no specific reference to god
= reflect Dharker’s exploration and criticism of fundamentalism in the collection

Question 7

Language point 2

Answer 7

Poet explores idea of humanity and how society should be built on a structure of people rather than tissue paper documents

Question 8

Analyse “trace a grand design with living tissue”

Answer 8

Suggest utopian ideal society based on people
“Grand”
= suggest something new and revolutionary
“Living tissue”
= it will have more heart and be more beautiful than these bits of paper

Question 9

Describe stanza lengths

Answer 9

Written in quatrains
= provide consistent structure
= show how restrictive human power and control can be

Question 10

Describe final line

Answer 10

Final line is a single line
= isolate and emphasise it’s meaning
= show it’s breaking free from controlling structure
= implies there’s a need to break free from control of human power