Tissue by Imtiaz Dharker
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- Created on: 12-01-19 18:18
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- Tissue by Imtiaz Dharker
- Language
- "light shine through"
- "Koran", "grand design"
- "smoothed and stroked and turned"
- "grocery shops" "was sold" "credit card"
- "sun shines through"
- "layer over layer", "luminous script"
- "never with to build again with brick"
- positive language
- "raise a structure never meant to last"
- political language
- culture
- "turned into your skin"
- Form and Structure
- no rhyme scheme
- enjambment and caesura to signify change of idea or emotion
- equal size stanzas + one line at the end
- repetition of positive ideas
- direct adress
- changes between positives (light) and things that are worthless
- ongoing molologue
- Emotions
- positive - light is the centre of life and a powerful force
- control
- identity
- pride/ power
- childhood/ hints in the poem
- excitement and exploration
- Conflicts
- power of identity
- materialistic things
- symbolic value of paper
- society's ideas and history
- power of nature
- religion and culture
- ideas of terrorism/ 9/11 or Berlin Wall
- Context
- poems look at issues such as religion, terrorism and global politics and identity
- born in 1954
- troubles of the modern world
- world would be better if it shared qualities with 'tissue'
- raised in Glasgow but has Pakistani origins
- point of view of someone looking at the conflicts and troubles of the modern world
- Past and Present
- poem looks at current issues but also issues that happened in the past
- thinks about the future and not focusing on the difficulties we have in the present
- world should change
- past isnt good enough and neither is the present
- Language
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