Tissue -imtiaz Dharker

Question 1

what are the key themes?

Answer 1

-instability
-fragility and power of life

Question 2

name 3 quotes:

Answer 2

-“might fly our lives like paper kites”
- metaphor

-“maps too…the marks that rivers make, roads, rail-tracks, mountain-folds”
-caesura

-“well-used books, the back of the koran,”
-caesura

Question 3

what quote shows fragility

Answer 3

“of paper smoothed and stroked and thinned to be transparent”
-repetition

Question 4

what does the enjambment show through out the poem?

Answer 4

lack of control

Question 5

what does transparent have connotations of?

Answer 5

-truthful
-honest
-morality