Deconstruction

Follow the link below to find an essay on Deconstruction. On the site this link will lead you to, you will find towards the bottom a link to a sample essay applying Deconstruction to "My Papa's Waltz." Please make sure that if you use this paper at all in your interpretation of the poem that you cite it as a source.

http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/virtualit/poetry/critical_define/crit_decons.html

Another helpful website:
http://www.teachingliterature.org/teachingliterature/criticism.htm

Some Questions for your Analysis:

~What are the binary operations or oppositions that govern the text?

~What ideas, concepts, and values are being established by these binaries?

~By reversing the elements in each of the binaries, can you challenge the previously held value system posited by the original binary?

~After reversing one or more binaries in a given text, can you dismantle your original interpretation of that text?