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Hi there.
Would you please tell me how to deconstruct Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken"?
Thnx.
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Does this mean you want an assignment/homework done for you?
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How about just reading it and enjoying it? Deconstruction will take the juice right out of it. In my opinion.
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Which is, I think, the goal of most literature classes. It's a pity.
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I think that often studying a poem (or a novel) & understanding a bit about why it was written, what it is actually about & taking into account its cultural & historical milieu can improve your enjoyment of it. Sometimes...
As for deconstruction, I think we all do that to anything we read, to a point. Half the fun of poetry is our own interpretation of it! -
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I don't mind them pulling it apart as long as they put it back together properly!
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Exactly! One writer I enjoy and many do not is E.E.Cummings as he often wrote without punctuation - which makes the reader examine the words and we all know that in such a case every person reads the sentances differently. You can come up with several different meanings to one sentance or verse.
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i just want to know how I should apply deconstruction in this poem.
which factors should I observe?
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What's "deconstruction"?
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Read "On Deconstruction" by Jonathan Culler, then run, do not walk, to the nearest exit. If you are taking a humanities course in an institution of higher learning you are in great intellectual danger. Faculty isolation and inbreeding have produced cognative mutations for which there are no known treatments. Save yourself before it is too late!
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I concur.
When ignorance judges, if it assumes a superior view of another's writing, much is lost. (refer to Judith's context.)
When academics do, they may assume that is all there is, missing other realities that made it live.
It is a moot situation prone to error. -
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We (or THEY) are always just humans judging humans. We are programmed for failure before we start.
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We are programmed for failure before we start,
--and can become painfully arrogant if not aware. -
I heard
they've isolated the pituitary gland as a major player in aging
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I do agree it's interesting and useful to study the historical background and the poet's biographical details. It's good to have a context for the poem and I have to admit my literary studies happened mostly before Post Modernism. Perhaps I need to take some kind of update via Google. You have made the Culler book sound intriguing.
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Something there is that doesn't love a wall.
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that wants it down.
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