Poetry deconstruction essay

Examine closely the wording and devices used in the piece of work. Dissect these words into their meaning by delving into root words or synonyms that can spark discourse. “Deconstruction is not synonymous with 'destruction,'” according to theorist Barbara Johnson, She posits that it is close in meaning to “analysis,” which means “to undo.”

The Deconstruction theory in literature finds written manifestation in “Of Grammatology” written by the philosopher Jaques Derrida (translated in English by Gayatri Chakraborty Spivak) and it opposes the linguistic theory of Saussure, as enunciated in “Course in General Linguistics”.

Deconstruction is not something that exists in poetry. Deconstruction is something that is done to texts. Specifically it is a way of analyzing a text to undermine the privileged concept in it by showing that the privileged concept presupposes or is reliant on the underdog concept.

Therefore, deconstruction is a way of reading text with the result that text cannot sign a meaning in a hierarchy or single truth (Ratna, 2004:222, Al-Fayyadl, 2005: 68, Norris, 2006:14).A deconstructive reading of Robert Frost’s poem “The Road Not Taken” reveals that the road not taken doesn’t make any difference at all.