Comparing 'Tissue' with other poems
I can evaluate interesting choices of poems to compare with ‘Tissue’ and create a meaningful comparative plan.
Comparing 'Tissue' with other poems
I can evaluate interesting choices of poems to compare with ‘Tissue’ and create a meaningful comparative plan.
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Lesson details
Key learning points
- ‘Tissue’ and ‘London’ explore the futility of hierarchy and systemic control in society.
- Both ‘Tissue’ and ‘Extract from The Prelude’ show the triumph of nature over human pride.
- ‘Tissue’ and ‘Ozymandias’ explore the ephemerality of human power.
- ‘Tissue’ and ‘Ozymandias’ explore the failed attempts of man to immortalise their power through man made structures.
Keywords
Ephemeral - lasting for a short time
Futile - useless or pointless
Subvert - undermine the authority of
Immortalise - to cause someone or something to be remembered forever
Common misconception
Students may immediately want to compare 'Tissue' with ‘The Émigrée’ due to the immediate connection with light and displacement.
If we look more closely at 'Tissue', we can find solid links between poems about the ephemerality of human power.
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You will need access to a copy of the AQA Power and Conflict Anthology for this lesson.
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Starter quiz
6 Questions
the control man exerts over the natural world
the attempts of man to immortalise power
the priority man puts on the material world
the hierarchies that man enforces