Tissue

Question 1

It begins by exploring how paper can change think and alter things so it has power.

Answer 1

• Religious books
• Family histories in which details of a baby’s life are written
• Paper has power when used to divide and mark out, to segregate to order or to control
• Paper has power through receipts which control money in finance

BUT IT IS ALL AN ILLUSION

There is no real power, there is no real control, just the power we let it have

We give paper power but it is fragile

Images of human life are a different kind of tissue, powerful but fragile

Question 2

‘tissue’ - metaphor that human power is fragile as tissue paper

Question 3

‘Paper that lets the light shine through, this is what could alter things’

Answer 3

Comment to religious power - Bible paper and Koran

• the metaphor of ‘light’, a comment of the light of religion

Light = power of God, which can alter things

Question 4

Light is used as a metaphor for nature
‘light’
‘sun’
‘daylight’

Question 5

‘capitals and monoliths’ - referring to buildings

Answer 5

Representing human governance and control

• Symbolises human power

Question 6

‘Maps too’

Answer 6

• Maps segregate, they divide the natural world
• Humans power - Humans chose how to divide the natural world to control countries, borders and civilisations
• And maps are a great example of humans trying to exert their power over nature

Question 7

‘Fine slips from grocery shops’

Answer 7

• When you buy something you get a little statement, acknowledging that something’s been paid for
• Receipts are made by humans to control, by the governance of money

Question 8

Metaphor and simile
‘Fly out lives like paper kites’

Answer 8

Suggests that money dominates us, money controls us , it has power over us

Question 9

HUMAN POWER IS NOT PERMANENT

Answer 9

BUT THE POWER OF NATURE IS

Question 10

Free verse
Doesn’t have a rhyme scheme

Answer 10

Reflect the lack of power people have, and as much people try to arrange and control, their efforts are futile

Question 11

‘The sun shine through their borderlines’

Answer 11

A symbol of nature overpowers the paper

Question 12

‘daylight breaks through capitals and monolights’

Answer 12

The ‘daylight’ is a symbol of nature
- Breaks through human power

Question 13

‘turned into your skin’

Answer 13

Human skin and tissue paper are made to link together

A metaphor that highlights how human power is fragile like tissue paper