Deconstructive reading of sonnet-18

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   Welcome to my blog. The main aim to write this blog is to apply the deconstructive reading on a poem.This we are learned through the  TED Ed , the lesson video was created by Dr. Dilip Barad,the Head of the Department of English.so i would like to share here.

 First of all i would like to also share my learning experience on Ed TED platform. It's really very wonderful, including the various features like Think, Dig Deeper and Discuss ...And finally. and also this video has some special attraction of unique type of way to teaching by using DIY Lightboard.

Now, I we focus on the very concept of 'Deconstruction', then the very famously Jacques Derrida ,

 "Language bears within itself the necessity of  it's own critique "

  To deconstructive is to take a text apart along the structure "fault lines" created by the ambiguities inherent in one or more of its key concepts or themes in order to reveal the equivocations or contradictions that make the text possible.

  There are some theoetical concepts are used as tool to deconstruct the meaning of the poem like free play, undecidability of meanings, Binary opposition and Hegemony&Subjectivity.So how this all things operate, although it's a very difficult to apply in literature.

 Here,we take one small poem read as Deconstructively, William shakespeare's  sonnet "Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day" 

Sonnet 18: Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?

BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?

Thou art more lovely and more temperate:

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,

And summer’s lease hath all too short a date;

Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,

And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;

And every fair from fair sometime declines,

By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm'd;

But thy eternal summer shall not fade,

Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st;

Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade,

When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st:

   So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,

   So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

  So, while reading this poem deconstructively the first binary is sought to between, Human beings (Beloved) and nature (summer's day)

"Shall  I Compare thee to a summer's Day"

  Here the speaker is lover and addressed to female beloved, beloved represent by thee and the on the other side of binary is summer, here this poem id decentering  nature this is not beautiful nature poem,nature is the underprivileged side of poem.

   When we read further this poem,

"But thy eternal summer shall not fade

when in eternal lines to time thou grow'st

........ ....  ... . . and this give life to thee "

The beloved becomemore eternal than the summer days, which is fading, changing transitary, subsequently, when beloved,human being have eternity or immortality, when ther are lines /writing poem, the poem is about self and sonnet.

  Now, the line/writing poem become center  then beloved and summer both became periphery, summer also share it's attribution with beloved/human beings like  nature is changing, mortal, transitory, frail, faith, disloyal, is also the beloved may has atribute which summer has.

 The idea of deconstructive in the poem beloved may be like nature, frail, cheating.

 the poem is also given the life when 'I' is poet/lover himself, celebrating self.If i write the beloved become dramatice. The power struggle, and its implied with threats, the lover is threat the beloved only you have eternity,immortality. If i write authority and hegemony denied to write history denied implied threat in power struggle in this poem.