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This paper attempts to analyze Robert Frost's poem "The Road Not Taken" through the method of critical deconstruction. The paper also includes an explanation of this method of critical analysis. Bilbliography lists 3 sources.
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was popular during the 1960s and 1970s - was that literary texts are not solely the sums of their metaphors and symbolism, but should also be taken at face value,
and read at face value for complete and total understanding of a given work. One outgrowth of that movement is called deconstruction. Deconstruction is an important tool for literary criticism,
as it adds a different, and some might say more realistic, dimension to critical analysis of literary works. Deconstruction -- a definition
Deconstruction can be defined as the method by which meaning is constructed by writers, texts and readers ("Deconstruction"); meaning that may not be immediately clear on a first reading
of a literary work. In other words, to a deconstructionist, the meaning of a text should focus as much on what is being left out of it or ignored by
it, as by what is actually on the printed page ("Deconstruction"). According to French philosopher Jacques Derrida, who invented the term, all texts are based on dualism; one element of
the text is considered true and based exactly on what the words on the surface indicate; while through deconstruction literary analysis, the texts deep down points are probed and revealed
("Deconstruction"). For this reason, deconstructionists focus on very close and careful readings of particular texts, and can also focus on how the texts interrelate with other texts ("Deconstruction"). According to
deconstructionists, literary texts are, in actuality, a system of codes to be unraveled, and the reader/critic is not just a student of literature, but actually a decoder of the text
to try to find its deeper meanings (Clausen 55). Words, note supporters of deconstruction and its predecessor, New Criticism, are just words - everything else is interpretation from their own
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