Deconstruction of a Poem

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Deconstruction is founded by Jacques Derrida in the late 1960.It supplies to think more critically for a Literary work but to achieve this, some important steps are to be known.This paper will try to make a deconstructive reading on the poem of “ Cross” by Langston Hughes by using these important steps respectively.
According to Tyson, deconstructive reading aims to Show the undecidability and the complexities of a text’s ideology.These two goals mean being suggestive, plural meaning, disunity, aporia, conflicts,binary oppositions.The first way to deconstruct a text is that one should read very attentively and analyze all interpretations.The s/he should try to reveal the conflicts of these interpretations.Thet is to say, binary oppositions should be defined.The third step is to find the messages and find the new interpretations after the conflicts.The last one is to deconstruct these ideologies, binary oppositions, text to Show the undecidability and disunity of the text (259).In the light of this information , deconstruction of the poem of “ Cross” is achieved.The poem :
“ Cross
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