| Front | Tissue |
|---|---|
| Back | 'smoothed and stroked and turned' -sibilance evokes a gentle and respectful treatment through sound 'Paper that lets the light shine through' and 'The sun shines' and 'daylight break' - semantic field of light encapsulates the fragility and beauty of paper 'Fine slips from grocery shops...might fly our lives like paper kites' -simile that money controls our lives like a kite fluctuating in the wind 'with living tissue, raise a structure never to last' enjambment to emphasise the limitation and weakness of human 'the marks that rivers make; roads, rail tracks, mountain folds' -alliteration on r and m link these manmade and natural line as all seem permanent but the sun shines through them |
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