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Tissue - Coggle Diagram
Tissue
structure
written in quatrains, a consistent structure to show how restrictive human power can be
final line isolated which shows it is breaking free from the structure and emphasises how you too should break free from the control of human power
form
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could cause the reader to let go of a materialistic life and instead focus on the people around them and God the address "your skin" cements the idea people should consider their own actions
free verse and enjambment which juxtaposes the stanzas and shows you can find freedom in a restrictive institution
the structure also implies the most power presentations of power are underpinned by chaos and the enjambment could show her view humans show unite
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context
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her poetry is to do with identity due to her multicultural upbringing and her marriage of a non-hindu man
She presents the idea that humans don't have the right attitude to life and see it as permanent and a way to gain power, her husband battling with cancer for 11 years before dying may have been a demonstration of the fragility of life to her
title analysis
physical tissue, tissue we are made of, which eventually ages and dies
examples: money,receipts,maps, religious books etc.
society can be viewed as a tissue as it is made from a collection of cells and is intrinsically fragile
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brief summary
tissue paper is used as an extended metaphor to show that although fragile humans have a large power to change things
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