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The Generation of Endless Interpretations in Frost's The Road not Taken: A Deconstructive Reading
Marwan Abdulmunem Tawfeeq
Tikrit University, College of Arts
Marwan Abdulmunem Tawfeeq
Tikrit University, College of Arts
DOI: https://doi.org/10.25130/Lang.8.12.2.16
Keywords: Modernism, Binary opposition, Deconstruction, Frost, Derrida
Abstract
Derrida's deconstructive approach is considered one of the significant concepts that criticize the central idea of modernism and any other previous movements. Deconstructivists aim to re-examine literary texts from an individual perspective. This individuality may generate endless interpretations of a certain text. The deconstructive approach is mainly a reaction to the systematic rules of structuralism as well as it is a reaction to the formalist approach and to all the Western logos. The selected poem of this study is Frost's "The Road not Taken". The poem is challenging as it does not follow a traditional method. It keeps generating ideas and endless interpretations because the meaning is not located. The study aims to analyze the poem from a deconstructive perspective and blur the binary opposition.
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