Tissue - Imtiaz Dharker

'Who was born to whom' 'Who died where' - Life is on paper, rely on paper (something fragile)
Multiculturalism, born in Pakistan, grew up in Scotland
'Paper thinned by age' - Wears away, like skin, built in layers
'Marks' 'Roads' - Metaphor, blemishes on skin, map
'Smoothed' 'Stroked' - Verbs, delicacy, fragility, looked over by many people
'Names and histories' - All recorded on paper
'Fine slips form grocery shops' - Receipts, everything's recorded
'Paper' - Noun, first word, thins, versatile
'Well-used books' - Paper's important, knowledge
'Alter' - Verb, powerful
'How easily they fall away on a sigh' - Temporary, lost, sad how human life is fragile
'Fly our lives like paper kites' - Simile, controls our lives, money, freedom, fragile
'Koran' - Religion, been around for years, lots of pages/layers
'Drift' 'Shift' - Verb, light, blown apart, taken away
'Transparent' - Adjective, can be seen through
'Light shine' - Allows things to be seen
Free verse - Conversational, personal thought flow
'Layer over layer' - Everything built in layers, skin and paper layers
Extended metaphor
4 line stanzas - Built in layers
Paper in different sizes/colors like people
Irregular stanzas - Irregular life
Unclear poetic voice
Inner conflict of poet
No straight forward interpretation
'Thinned' - Repetition at end about skin/humans, don't last like paper
'Luminous' - Adjective, repetition of light
'Raised a structure never made to last' - God never made us to last
'Daylight break through capitals' - Light will outlast all, last thing left in world
'Turned into your skin' - Direct address, stern

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