Tissue by Imitiaz Dharker
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- Created on: 09-05-18 19:31
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- Tissue by Imitiaz Dharker
- Language
- turned to your skin
- shines through "their" borderlines. "maps too"
- gods faith in displaced people- dhakers themes.
- metaphorically at a border in her mind cannot leave her old beliefs doesnt want go on.
- "their" pronoun, oneness of human suffering and greater human experience of pain and suffering is not personal
- doesnt want sepaerate and obstacles and divison.
- paper thinned by age or touching
- holding onto the things- we should be willing to let go and let things be.
- tissue- fragility, transparency to life that paper doesn't have, a simplicity we don't have
- dreaming of tissue has connotations of warmth and care and a necessity to protect
- represents premonitions about people, places and things- things don't last
- protection- wrapped, materialistic, negative and false
- what was paid for by credit card might fly our lives like paper kites
- money controls people, kites fragile and innocence and freedom. juxtaposition of the materialistic credit card and the kite- corrupted by money?
- that our idealistic memories are only created through economic security- privilege in innocence.
- wanting childhood back- can't buy it back
- credit card- banks issue money on credit, its controlled by them, even these things the speaker believes are her memories do not belong to her but global institutions.
- kites- made of paper, used in millatry and tech as well as decoration and celebrations- more than just objects?
- "what"- perhaps an attack on modern economics and dehumanizing, but also our emotional debts and prices we have to pay
- "if buildings were paper i might feel their drift, see how easily they fall away on a sigh a shift in the direction of the wind
- allusion to the twin towers
- a lot of the collection this poem is taken from were written in response to the attacks, and about the effects afterwards on the global community.
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- futility of power, contrasts of buildings and cities, control
- allusion to the twin towers
- semantic filed- architect, rebuild a new world, "never again building with brick"- building with peoples intrest at heart
- shapes that pride can make find a way to trace a grand degsin
- gods grand design- to untie us. ironic as the world is a mess
- shapes that pride can make find a way to trace a grand degsin
- context
- from Dharkers poetry collection"the terrorist at my table"- related to religion, terrorism and global politics,
- born in Scotland, has Pakistani origins and is Muslim
- structure
- use of extended metaphors, skins and tissue, maps and architiect
- lots of enjambment. continues throughout stanzas= lack of control.
- form and metre
- unrhymed irregular quatrains.
- 10 stanzas, 9 regular, 1 on its own
- the last stanza= lasting reminder and
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