Page 2: Key Quotations and Comparisons in "Tissue"

The second page delves deeper into the analysis of "Tissue" by Imtiaz Dharker, focusing on key quotations and comparisons that illuminate the poem's themes and literary devices.

Several important quotations are highlighted and analyzed:

Quote: "What was paid by credit card / might fly our lives like paper kites."

This simile suggests how humans are dominated and controlled by money, implying that humans have caused conflict by assigning significance to such things.

Quote: "The marks / that rivers make, roads / rail tracks, mountain folds"

The use of listing in this quote highlights the idea that humans are determined to control, dominate, and make sense of nature.

Quote: "Shift" and "drift"

These words, related to transience, remind the reader of the fragility of paper, reinforcing the poem's central metaphor.

The poem's themes are compared to other works, including "Ozymandias," "Exposure," "The Prelude," and "Storm on the Island," suggesting a connection to broader literary explorations of nature versus human power.

Highlight: The poem repeatedly emphasizes the delicacy and importance of paper through images of touching and thinning, reinforcing its central metaphor.

Quote: "Paper smoothed and stroked and thinned to be transparent"

The repetition of this line reinforces the idea that paper, and by extension human constructs, are fragile and transient.

This page provides a deeper understanding of the themes in "Tissue", particularly the contrast between human attempts at control and the enduring power of nature, as well as the fragility of human constructs represented by paper.