Deconstructionism "This theory believes that meaning is discovered through examining structural codes in the text. Deconstructionist believes that there is not "one" correct meaning in a poem, rather poems can be interpreted many different ways" (Deconstructionism 1). Deconstructive Critics who utilize deconstruction, as a critical method actually would say that the text deconstructs itself, and that critics do not deconstruct the text so much as show how the text challenges itself and thereby dismantles itself. In this theory:

· Meaning of text is found through differences.

· Textual meaning is not infinite.

· It is important to locate the point of contradiction.

· The "point where the text breaks free" is established.

· The text does not have a unified, logic

that the deconstructive critic is wrong, it just means that the textual meaning showed a different story line to the critic. Which leads into the approach of a Deconstructive critic.

When a Deconstructive critic approaches a piece of literature he/she has to "disguise underlying tensions, with elements in a precarious unstable balance. The surface plot may mask real underlying agendas. We may need to read "against the grain"; we many have to listen between the lines. The playwright may be sending coded insider's messages going counter to the overt surface meaning" (1088). Dr. Susan K. Proctor is a deconstructive critic at St. Gregory University drama department. This is how Dr. Proctor's describes to me how a deconstructive critic approaches a piece of literature:

The ideas of a Deconstructive Criticism start with theory, the approach of Deconstructionism and my Deconstructive Criticism of Robert Frost poem Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening. A Deconstructive critic can display his attitude towards his case and support his ideas through the textual meaning of a piece of literature. Deconstructionism gives the critic the ability to present his ideas accurately and convey his point of view through the meaning of the text.

To watch his woods fill up with snow.

al whole meaning.

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