In which poem is the line 'might fly our lives like paper kites' found?

In which poem is the line 'might fly our lives like paper kites' found?

• A. The Emigree
• B. London
• C. Ozymandias
• D. Tissue

Answer: (D)

The line uses a vivid image to explore how fragile and provisional human life can feel, and how easily it can be moved or changed by external forces. In Tissue, paper is the central symbol: it represents documents, borders, maps, money, and the records that shape our identities and histories. The idea that our lives might “fly… like paper kites” combines freedom with vulnerability—paper can lift and carry, but it’s also light, flimsy, and torn by the wind. This mirrors the poem’s larger message about how power, borders, and arrangements of society shape ordinary lives, often in delicate, negotiable ways. That specific image isn’t found in the other poems listed. The Emigree is about memory and homeland, London critiques urban oppression, and Ozymandias considers the ruins of tyrannical power. None of them cradle the line about life as paper that could fly like a kite in the same way Tissue does. So the line belongs to Tissue.

The line uses a vivid image to explore how fragile and provisional human life can feel, and how easily it can be moved or changed by external forces. In Tissue, paper is the central symbol: it represents documents, borders, maps, money, and the records that shape our identities and histories. The idea that our lives might “fly… like paper kites” combines freedom with vulnerability—paper can lift and carry, but it’s also light, flimsy, and torn by the wind. This mirrors the poem’s larger message about how power, borders, and arrangements of society shape ordinary lives, often in delicate, negotiable ways.

That specific image isn’t found in the other poems listed. The Emigree is about memory and homeland, London critiques urban oppression, and Ozymandias considers the ruins of tyrannical power. None of them cradle the line about life as paper that could fly like a kite in the same way Tissue does.

So the line belongs to Tissue.