anthology: tissue.

Question 1

what is the purpose and meaning of the text?

Answer 1

• senses of different images to make the reader think.
• non-narrative.

Question 2

what is the context of the text?

Answer 2

• writer is an artist, documentary film maker and poet.
• exhibitions of drawings.
• describes world laureate.
• husband died after battling 10 years of cancer.

Question 3

language and structure: explanation and quotes.

Answer 3

• layering images like layers of paper, skin or tissue.
• quatrains.
• 3 categories: human history, human experience, freedom and creation.
• free verse, no rhyme or rhythm.
• enjambment at the end of lines.
• motif of light and transparency.
• ‘your skin’- creating you inside out and direct address.
• ‘fly our lives like paper kites,’- simile, displaying lives, fragile?
• ‘and never wish to build again with brick’- building a new type of world.
• sibilance, sounds like paper sliding.

Question 4

key quotes.

Answer 4

‘paper that lets the light shine though.’
- ‘turned into your skin.’
- ‘ but let the daylight break through capitals and monoliths.’
- ‘ never wish to build again with brick.’

Question 5

what does it pair well with?

Answer 5

emigree.